Perhaps we can get someone to take a photo of the Higgs Boson for Commons?
Surely not that hard, right?
(I am, of course, joking)
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On 24 September 2013 13:12, <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
One for the science geeks...
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:07:16 +0000
Subject: New display on Higgs boson at the National Museum of Scotland
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Please find to follow media release from National Museums Scotland:****
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*Hunting the Higgs Boson*
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*Friday 27 September 2013 to Sunday 16 February 2014 *
*National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh*
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*Admission: Free*
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A new display at the National Museum of Scotland charts the search for
the Higgs boson and the continuing quest to discover the fundamental
structure of the universe.****
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*Hunting the Higgs boson* explores the journey by scientists at CERN, the
European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to pinpoint the Higgs boson
particle. The famous particle is named after Professor Peter Higgs, who
first proposed the theory of its existence back in 1964 when working at the
University of Edinburgh. Scientists have been hunting for the elusive
particle since the mid-1990s.****
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Through personal artefacts loaned from Professor Higgs, material from CERN
and objects charting the history of particle physics, this small exhibition
provides an introduction to the ground-breaking scientific discovery.****
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Over 7000 scientists, engineers and support staff from over 40 countries
worked out of CERN in the search for the invisible particle. 48 years after
Peter Higgs’ theory was published CERN announced that they had found a new
particle “consistent with the Higgs boson”. Following its discovery
Professor Higgs commented that he didn’t expect this to happen in his
lifetime. ****
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An array of commemorative medals presented to him for his impact on the
world of physics, including one from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to mark
the Higgs boson discovery, can be viewed in the exhibition. Also on display
is a slice of prototype magnet from the Large Hadron Collider presented to
Higgs when the experiments which finally found the Higgs boson were still
in the planning stages, nine years before the first beam was fired around
the accelerator. ****
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The technology behind the discovery of the Higgs boson has had a huge
impact, and has resulted in many real-world applications including use in
medical scanners and solar panels. In 1989 the solution for storing and
sharing vast amounts of information in use at CERN came from Tim
Berners-Lee and eventually grew into the World Wide Web.****
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Tacye Phillipson, Senior Curator of Modern Science at National Museums
Scotland commented,****
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*“Particle physics is an incredible collaborative endeavour. This small
exhibition shows how far it has come in the quest to understand our
universe, and the impact that the technology developed in the hunt for the
Higgs boson has had on our everyday lives.” *
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*Hunting the Higgs boson* was developed in partnership with the
University of Edinburgh.****
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24 September 2013****
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*Further information and images from Susan Gray, Press Office on 0131 247
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Website *www.nms.ac.uk* <http://www.nms.ac.uk/>****
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**3. **CERN****
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the European Council for Nuclear Research. ****
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Switzerland and France, was founded in 1954 to increase international
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world, sharing the costs as well as the knowledge of complex experiments
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