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170. Finding the God Particle

170. Finding the God Particle

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Physicist and former pop star Brian Cox tells Steve about discovering the Higgs boson, having a number-one hit, and why particle physics research will almost certainly not create a black hole that destroys all life on earth.

  • SOURCES:
    • Brian Cox, physicist at the University of Manchester.

  • RESOURCES:
    • Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe, by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (2023).
    • "Higgs10: The Higgs boson and the rise of the Standard Model of Particle Physics in the 1970s," by John Ellis (CERN, 2022).
    • Out of Silence, by Dare (2004).
    • "WW scattering at the LHC," by J. M. Butterworth, Brian Cox, and J. R. Forshaw (CERN, 2002).
    • A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking (1998).
    • "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities," by Roger Penrose (Physical Review Letters, 1965).
    • "The Value of Science," by Richard P. Feynman (Internet Archive, 1955).
    • "Brian Cox Live."

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