Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Inspirational Highland Scenery & the Higgs Boson

It was in 1964 while hiking through the Cairngorms in the north of Scotland that epiphany struck Professor Peter Higgs. It was here that the existence of the Higgs Boson or 'God Particle' was first conceived of - A theory which purported to explain how everything in the universe obtains it's mass.