The Higgs Boson and Its Discovery Explained with Animation

Ever since the Large Hadron Col­lid­er (LHC) went online in 2008, physi­cists have been con­duct­ing exper­i­ments, hop­ing to final­ly prove or dis­prove the exis­tence of The God Par­ti­cle, oth­er­wise known as the Hig­gs Boson. Today, researchers work­ing at CERN (which oper­ates the LHC) announced that they think they’ve final­ly found it. In case you’re look­ing for a primer on The God Par­ti­cle, we’re bring­ing back a video we first post­ed in April. Here we have Daniel White­son, a physics pro­fes­sor at UC Irvine, giv­ing us a fuller expla­na­tion of the Hig­gs Boson, mer­ci­ful­ly using ani­ma­tion to demys­ti­fy the the­o­ry and the LHC exper­i­ments that were used to con­firm it.

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