Knowledge is
power
What is a particle ? A particle is a speck
or small portion of something. But just one particle could unleash the answers
to a decades long search. The relationship of why all matter has mass and a new
side of subatomic science. That small particle is called the higgs particle,
proposed first theoretically in the 1960’s.
Scientists
celebrated as 2 independent teams announced the high tech findings in Geneva,
Switzerland. The CERN, [ European center for nuclear usually sedate, burst into
often applause and physicists who had spent their career searching for the
higgs particle cried. The recently discovered particle shares qualities with
the acclaimed higgs particle, and is probably the greatest accomplishment at
CERN since its creation. Rolf hewer, the director of CERN, says that the
particle is a boson. A boson is a particle that has a even number of protons
and electrons. the higgs boson is the key to understanding why matter has mass.
Inside
the CERN’s atom smasher, protons fly around a 17 mile tunnel underground. The
protons whiz by at nearly light speed and the collisions aftermath can
help with clues to dark matter,
antimatter, and the beginning of the universe.
I
believe this is important because atoms are made up of protons and electrons,
which in turn are made of quacks and so on. Scientists were always puzzled as
to how they acquire mass. Higgs’s theory
was that ‘ a new particle must be creating a sticky field that created a drag
on other particles.’ Now that that particle creating a sticky field is found,
scientists can understand the question of why matter has mass
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