CERN Scientists Looking for the Force
National Geographic has a fascinating article on the
God Particle, which can help explain the
Standard Model and get us closer to explain the
Grand Unified Theory.
The obligatory Star Wars-angle summary is even better:
"CERN's scientists, the fine people who brought us the W and Z particles, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter."
