Inside the Large Hadron Collider: Cern’s pursuit of the elusive god particle

Andy Martin climbs into the belly of the beast and asks why the work to unravel the mysteries of quantum mechanics is so important

Wednesday 29 May 2019 17:38 BST
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Alice – one of the large detectors that make up the LHC
Alice – one of the large detectors that make up the LHC

I’m looking for the god particle,” I said.

“You shouldn’t say ‘god particle’,” said Dr Sarah Williams. “It’s the Higgs boson.”

“OK, can I see the Higgs boson then?”

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