Could A Techni-Particle Save Us from the Universe’s Undoing?
Before the Large Hadron Collider began smashing protons together in 2012, researchers feared that the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s (CERN) project could create a black hole that would engulf us all. But the particles met at extreme speeds, and what researchers found wasn’t a black hole, but rather an entirely new subatomic particle never seen before. Believed to be the ever-elusive Higgs Boson particle that is thought to give atoms their mass, what was found could not be identified by current models though CERN researchers made an empirical call, naming it the Higgs Boson.
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