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Theoretical physicists Peter Higgs and François Englert, the two responsible for setting forth the idea of the "God particle," have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.
The old saying that "ignorance is bliss" might just hold truer and faster at critical levels than anything else. It seems that while we may have located and codified the mysterious crux of mass - the Higgs boson particle - we may have indirectly elicited our own demise.
The Large Hadron Collider, the European particle accelerator that identified what might be the Higgs boson, will shut down for two years to allow crews to upgrade it.
It was a big year for the largest and most powerful atom smasher ever built, but it looks like the next round of experiments and discoveries from it will have to wait until at least 2015.
British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the man who christened the Higgs Boson particle, has reached another milestone for what has been a banner year for him.
Acclaimed British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and seven scientists have been awarded $3 million by a Russian billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner for their respective works regarding space and physics.
One of the most talked about discoveries of the scientific community this year--the Higgs boson, or the "God particle"--could be selected as the Time Person of the Year.
