Published 4 July 2012
There is currently much excitement in the international science community about the discoveries relating to the elusive Higgs boson particle in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Check out these useful online resources about what it’s all about…
- “Instant Egghead – What is the Higgs Boson?” – a video in which Scientific American editor George Musser explains why it is so important to science and to our very existence
- Our 10 quick facts about the Large Hadron Collider and CERN
- A video in which science journalist Ian Sample, author of “Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle”, explains what a Higgs boson is and the search for it
- From the CERN canteen, an animation explaining the Higgs boson
- A short explanation (and a much longer one) about the subatomic particle at Higgsboson.nl
- “The LHC for Dummies”
- How the World Wide Web was born at CERN
- The Irish connections: how a team from UCD have played an important role in the project
- A BBC video in which Dara Ó Briain talks about the experiment. Before becoming a broadcaster and comedian he studied maths and theoretical physics at UCD
- A profile of Professor Peter Higgs, who developed his theory about the particle back in 1964
