Among Grant’s word-of-the-year picks had to be Higgs boson, that fundamental particle of matter discovered by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Higgs Boson”
On the list of words of the year for 2012, of course, is Higgs boson.
Yes.
This was the atomic particle whose existence was finally confirmed in July by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider.
Yes.
That’s a great one, right?
Yes, Higgs boson.
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