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Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist, explains why discovering the Higgs Boson is such a breakthrough for science as well as what the Higgs Boson really is.
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- Higgs boson
The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle initially theorised in 1964, whose discovery was announced at CERN on 4 July 2012, and confirmed likely to be a Higgs boson in March 2013. The discovery has been called "monumental" because it appears to confirm the existence of the Higgs field, which is pivotal to the Standard Model and other theories within particle physics.
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