Peter Higgs, the man that discovered the Higgs boson particle, died the same day they fired up the machine to smash particles.
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Maybe his life long dream was complete and he gave up the ghost, or did he really time travel and disappear?
hehe. Sorry, couldn't resist. He was 94.
CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson. Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics – a remarkable theory which explains...
Maybe his life long dream was complete and he gave up the ghost, or did he really time travel and disappear?
hehe. Sorry, couldn't resist. He was 94.