Proposed almost fifty years ago to allow for consistency between theoretical predictions and experimental observations in elementary particle physics, the Higgs particle’s discovery caps one of the most remarkable intellectual adventures in human history—one that anyone interested in the progress of knowledge should at least be aware of—and makes even more remarkable the precarious accident that allowed our existence to form from nothing, the subject of this book. The discovery is further proof that the universe of our senses is just the tip of a vast, largely hidden cosmic iceberg and that
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