The Higgs Boson -- a hero or a villain?
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Is the Higgs Boson responsible for the mass of things? If it's not, then what IS? I don't think you can actually classify Higgs as a hero or a villain, but it sounded really cool to me.
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Video: Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss discuss the Higgs Boson at the World Science Festival.
Read about the Higgs Boson and it's significance from the particle accelerator laboratory that discovered it.
PBS Atom Builder Interactive Site (requires Shockwave) -- featuring the "guide to elementary particles" and "building stable atoms". Also includes a glossary and a link to biographical information for scientists and their relevant discoveries. This interactive lets you use quarks to build particles and also build radioactive and stable atoms. See it here.
A basic atom-builder activity that's perfect for beginners (works great on a whiteboard).
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