Who Cares about Particle Physics? - Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN Gagnon Pauline formerly Senior Research Scientist Indiana University USA retired Paper

CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, regularly makes the news. Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson so important? What kind of research happens at this international laboratory and how does it impact people's daily lives?

How do we know this mysterious dark matter exists and is there a chance it will be discovered soon? Particle physics describes all matter found on Earth, in stars and all galaxies but it also tries to go beyond what is known to describe dark matter, a form of matter five times more prevalent than the known, regular matter. About sixty countries contributed to the construction of the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and its immense detectors.

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