Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : God Particles
The correct answer is God Particles. - Higgs Boson is also known as God Particles.
- It is a subatomic particle whose existence is predicted by the theory which unified the weak and electromagnetic interactions.
- It is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman referred to the Higgs as the "Goddamn Particle" as it was difficult to detect it.
- The Higgs boson was proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs, François Englert, and four other theorists to explain why certain particles have mass.
- Scientists confirmed its existence in 2012 through the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.
- This discovery led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Higgs and Englert.
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