Cartoon Explains Higgs Boson [VIDEO]

So what is this Higgs boson thing all about again?

The NASA-approved cartoon above tries to explain. Created by PHD Comics, the video features two scientists giving an overview of the so-called "God particle" as an illustrator attempts to visualize the concepts.

The gist is that there are untold numbers of particles, but scientists only know of 12. With the CERN supercollider, scientists can annihilate particles and then reconstruct them in a new way to see what's going on at that subatomic level. Using CERN's $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, scientists either were or weren't able to find Higgs boson, a particle predicted by the Standard Model that gives other particles mass. We…
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