What Is the Higgs Boson?

Employees of Wonderful Motherboard took to the streets of Brooklyn, NY, to ask people what they know about the Higgs Boson. The responses are about what you might expect. One of my sisters asked me yesterday what the Higgs Boson is. My answer was that it is basically the "equals" sign in Einstein's famous e=mc² equation. You can quote me on that one.

Posted August 1, 2012

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