Higgs says he was walking across the street in Edinburgh on Tuesday when a ex- neighbor got away from her vehicle to compliment him about the news.
“I {said|stated}, ‘Oh, what news?'” Higgs told reporters on Friday.
So much for social media and stuff, he learned it the old-style way: Just on the street with real people. But how in this world could he learn that news on the street ? it’s easier to understand when you know that PEter Higgs doesn’t own a mobile phone or a computer.
He won the Nobel prize for his theory about the mass of subatomic particles. The theory was proven right by an experiments at CERN using the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).
The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles. The biggest experiments using the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, use general-purpose detectors to investigate the largest range of physics possible. Having two independently designed detectors is vital for cross-confirmation of any new discoveries made. The ATLAS detector, one of two experiments to spot the elusive Higgs boson in particle smashups at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, weighs as much as a hundred 747 jets and houses more than 1,800 miles of cable.
The particle is now known as the Higgs boson but in mainsteam media the Higgs boson has often been called the “God particle” too