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Aug. 26, 2011
Elusive Higgs Boson Still Hiding From Physicists
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| Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have narrowed the range of energies at which they might find the Higgs boson, a particle predicted to give all others their mass. Science historian Amir Aczel discusses whether the particle might not exist, and how math sometimes leads physicists astray. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Amir Aczel
Author, forthcoming book "A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians" (Sterling, Oct 2011)
Research Fellow, History of Science
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
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