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Unhappy with your weight? Blame it on the Higgs Boson.
On June 6, 2012, at a “news conference” event held at the Aspen Center for Physics, Michigan State University professor, Elizabeth Simmons made
that comment while announcing that physicists at the European Laboratory for
Particle Physics run by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research ) have
finally found experimental evidence of
the existence of the long-sought elementary subatomic particle, the Higgs
Boson.
The timing of this momentous discovery and its official
announcement was serendipitous for the Aspen Center
for Physics which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer. For
the last 50 years, physicists from around the world have gathered in Aspen to discuss
theoretical physics to increase their understanding of it and to disseminate
this information to the public.
Just last February, Rolf Heuer, Director General, CERN
(LHC), spoke about this very Higgs Boson at one of the Maggie and Nick DeWolf 2012
Winter Physics Lectures in Aspen.
In the “Science and Our Future” event, July 1, 2012, held at the 2012 Aspen
Ideas Festival, Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University, discussed the importance of
this discovery.
