How The Biggest, Baddest Atom Smasher Finds the “God Particle”
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Did you know that it’s actually impossible to observe the Higgs boson? The Higgs boson decays incredibly fast and has a lifespan of just 1 zeptosecond. No instrument we can make can snap an image of it fast enough, but it is possible to see what it turns into when it decays. In the third and final episode about the Higgs boson, Julian talks about how scientists actually found it in the first place.