Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics

There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’  zip past, along with the term ‘God Particle’. As during the 2010s the scientists at CERN were trying to find evidence for the existence of this scalar boson and with it evidence for the existence of the Higgs field that according to the Standard Model gives mass to gauge bosons like photons, this effort got communicated in the international media and elsewhere in a variety of ways.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/15/remembering-peter-higgs-and-the-gravity-of-his-contributions-to-physics/