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Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs

4/22/2024

365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

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Last week, we learned about the death of Peter Higgs, a physicist and discoverer of the particle that bears his name. The Large Hadron Collider was built to find and describe the particle. Today, we’ll look back at the life of Peter Higgs and his particle.

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