Vi Hart, she of many mathematics-related artistic innovations, muses on the announced discovery of “a Higgs-like particle: (Thanks to investigator John Agle for bringing this to our attention.)
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The overlooked Higgs particle patent
As we all (some of us) away Wednesday’s announcement from CERN about the discovery or non-discovery of the Higgs particle, let’s look at an unrelated achievement: the Higgs particle patent: “Particulate materials”, U.S. patent #5880177, issued to Robert Philip Higgs et al. on March 9, 1999. BONUS: Frank Wilczek talks about the Large Hadron Collider, CERN‘s […]
Ode Upon a Particle, of Doubt
A poem of sorts, in honor of the announcement that researchers at CERN may have found some evidence that might (and might not) indicate whether or not the hypothetical Higgs particle exists: Last night I saw beneath the stair A particle that wasn’t there. It wasn’t there again today. I wish it would just go […]
Wags on Higgs
A fresh heap of rumors say that soon, soon scientists at the CERN particle accelerator will announce that they have discovered evidence that the Higgs boson exists. Or that it doesn’t. Or that they evidence doesn’t quite prove the one or the other. Ian Sample, science editor of The Guardian, wrote a surprisingly-fun-and-fact-filled book, called […]