Higgs Boson discovery tops Science picks for 2012 - Published:
21/12/2012 at 08:46 AM - Online news: The discovery of the Higgs
Boson, an invisible particle that explains the mystery of mass,
leads a list of the top 10 scientific advances of 2012 released
by the US journal Science. Graphic distributed on July 4, 2012
by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) shows a
representation of traces of a proton-proton collision measured
in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in the search for the Higgs
Boson particle. The discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, leads
a list of the top 10 scientific advances of 2012 released
Thursday by the US journal Science. Without the Higgs Boson,
scientists believe, we and all the other joined-up atoms in the
Universe would not exist. The God Particle is named after
83-year-old Peter Higgs, a shy, soft-spoken Briton who in 1964
published the conceptual groundwork for the particle. Belgian
physicist Francois Englert, 79, separately contributed to the
theory. The other maj