This iTunes U track looks at how scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider first hoped to detect the elusive Higgs boson, and in the process, reveal the origin of mass, the missing piece in our understanding of matter.
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To mark the re-launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle...
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