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The Higgs Boson Explained with Animation

Can’t tell your “God Particle” from your “Dog Particle”? Too many quarks making you quack? Feel like a Higgs Bozo? Here’s what CERN is looking for, and what it might mean, via an awesome animation.

A PhD Comics animation, that is.

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Source: openculture.com

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