CERN Detects The Higgs Boson
Year: 2012/2013
Physicists have worked for decades to model the universe. This “Standard Model” describes the four basic interactions of matter or the fundamental forces. Those are the gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear forces. In the 1960s, theoretical physicists, notably François Englert and Peter Higgs, discussed a universal quantum field and how it interacts with particles. That became the Higgs Field and eventually, it was assumed all fundamental fields needed an associated particle, which ended up being the Higgs Boson. In 2012 the Large Hadron Collider at CERN managed to find the Higgs Boson. In 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to both Englert and Higgs for their theoretical discovery that was obviously, now, no longer just a theory but a fact.