The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the God particle that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.
The 'God particle' or Higgs boson is the particle that is supposed to account for the mass of every other fundamental particle. What does that mean? Here is a look.
Higgs shared his Nobel prize with Belgian physicist Francois Englert for proposing the existence of what became known as the Higgs boson particle | World News
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