It’s just over ten years ago that the Higgs boson was first discovered. Physicist Toyoko Orimoto writes that the particle could lead us to more discoveries, such as if there are other spatial dimensions and the eventual fate of the universe
Physics
4 November 2022
The Higgs boson was discovered at the LHC Daniel Dominguez/CERN
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Ten years ago on 4 July 2012, I was both delighted and astonished by the discovery being announced to the world. The CMS and ATLAS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider were now certain – the Higgs boson …