NYT carries an interesting article this week about the race amongst physicists to discover the Higgs boson. Great illustrations and good story. The whole race seems to be about finding the signs of Higgs Boson disintegration in all of the traces captured from millions of collisions - A massive data analysis operation. The details of the smart techniques to search for this are still beyond the grasp of the common man I guess :)
Reading it I also realized that the so called elementary particles arent things I had read about or even known about. This lecture by Dr. Sao Lan Wu explains the model further
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