Particle Physics Peter Higgs, the Higgs Boson, and the “God Particle”: An Explanation of the Higgs Boson and Its Nickname admin, April 10, 2024 Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the particle in 2012. Peter Higgs’s ground-breaking work helped explain how everything in the universe attains mass. In 1964, he theorised the existence of the Higgs Boson, a fundamental force-carrying particle associated with the Higgs field. The Higgs field is a… Continue Reading