The Large Hadron Collider | 60 Minutes Archive

Buried 300 feet underground, the Collider smashes subatomic particles together with enormous energy. As Lesley Stahl reported in 2015, by studying the collisions, scientists made a major discovery: the Higgs boson. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, the particle's namesake, died this week at 94.

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[Laminar-Flow]

My first engineering physics professor in college worked with Dr. Higgs on the Compact Muon Solenoid and played a part in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Wow, what a bunch of incredible humans. I could never understand physics like these individuals do, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate it.

[matth]

Rip Peter. Your contributions to science drive us forward. Thank you.

[brandonmitchell]

I LOVE ❤️ STORIES LIKE THIS, might not fully understand or grasp it but, thank you and grateful for all the people who are working to push humanity forward, rest in paradise Mr.Higgs

[HebaruSan]

How does "God particle" keep getting past editors and fact checkers? Nobody actually calls it that other than lazy reporters.

[mellowslinky]

Higgs is amazing. crazy how many times in history have the eccentrics have moved things forward

[windowwasherfpv]

This is fascinating. Wish I was intelligent enough to understand exactly what’s going on

[Spurg]

Wow, they are so open about it now . There are some things you just don’t mess with

[GATEWAYMARS]

Her hair is crazy 😆 RIP Peter Higgs. ❤️

[nealrothchild]

Love it. Great piece by 60 minutes. Ultimately, it will be science and understanding how our world interacts, that redeems us, so far as science can reveal it.

[edisinmedicine]

This guys wife couldn’t tell him he’s wrong those were I told you so tears man what a brilliant guy

[khg]

KInda like --- Seismic imaging is the numerical process of creating an image of the subsurface from reflections recorded at the surface. a warmth we can all feel

[katymedearis]

RIP Peter!!
So can we prove that matter softens in the vortex of a tornado ?

[BronzDano]

RIP Prof.Higgs thank you for your contributions to humanity

[SBayrd]

The thumbnail photo looks like a McDonald's Play Place.... lol

[windwhipped]

Something that monstrous to propel something as small as an proton.

[pilotboy]

Just know they just managed to achieve stable beams back in April. They've been running it constantly ever since. They were lying before about them shutting it down and not running it for years on end. Almost 1 million times they ran it

[alanverduzco]

all else fails or becomes obsolete, they still got tunnels for a makeshift public transit route

[klintboggess]

Bro died the same day they restarted the particle accelerator wtf

[HHIto]

Leslie Stahl is classy, articulate, easy on the eyes❤.

[TupacShakurTheDonMakaveli]

10:16 The body language of the two males besides the female are telling.