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What’s so special about the Higgs boson? – Home | CERN What’s so special about the Higgs boson? What is the Higgs boson? In quantum field theory, particles can be described as waves in a field (Image: Piotr Traczyk/CERN) To answer this question needs an exploration into the quantum world and how particles interact… The particle that we now call the Higgs boson first appeared in a scientific paper written by Peter Higgs in 1964 . At that time, physicists were working on describing the weak force – one of the four fundamental forces of Nature – using a framework called quantum

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