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Podcast: TudoRama
Episode: The God particle and beyond. A tribute to Peter Higgs
Description: Send us Fan MailThe death of Peter Higgs on Tuesday 9 April, 2024, gave rise to attempts to explain his contribution to our understanding of the nature of the fundamental forces of the Universe. The eulogies affirm his status of a giant in the field. The attempts to explain that contribution to the layman have faced considerable difficulties.I have tried to explain the limits to current understanding, and the need to rethink our deeplyheld assumptions about reality.I write as one such layman, albeit it one with a PhD in radiation chemistry. In...