The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...
Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...
Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...
The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday (Oct. 8) was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work in developing the theory of the Higgs field, and Purdue ...
Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...
The Higgs boson has been found! The Higgs boson has not been found! What the heck is the Higgs boson? Has it really been found? And why should we care? The Higgs boson is a key particle in the ...
On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...
The prediction of the mass-bestowing Higgs field and the famous particle that goes with it has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. The Nobel committee selected Peter Higgs of the University of ...