Photo Gallery: Starting Up the Large Hadron Collider

09/09/2008

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One of the things physicists hope to find is the so-called "Higgs boson," a...
AP / Keystone / University of Edinburgh / Alan Walker

One of the things physicists hope to find is the so-called "Higgs boson," a theoretical particle that could explain how matter has mass. Peter Higgs, seen here, theorized in 1964 that a sub-atomic particle is to blame.

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