[C20: named after Satyendra Nath Bose; see -on] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 bo•son (ˈboʊ sɒn) ...
The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. This field was first proposed in the mid-sixties by Peter Higgs — for whom the particle is named and his colleaguees. The particle was finally ...
that scientists realized something strange… Two of the fundamental forces, electromagnetic and weak, turned out to have the same quantum field theory. This meant that both forces had the same origin, which they named theelectroweak force.
"As a layman I would say 'We have it,' but as a scientist I would have to say 'What do we have?' We have discovered a boson and now we have to discover what kind of boson it is," CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said during the press briefing. [Top 5 Implications of Finding t...
Yesterday,I received some more good newsvia email from my friend Julie, the Particle Zookeeper. The particle physicist whom the Higgs boson is named after has also discovered his very own Higgs boson…at his home in Scotland! Continue reading ...