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Particle and nuclear

Particle and nuclear

An ambitious journey through the cosmos that sometimes gets lost at sea

28 Feb 2024

Katherine Wright reviews Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean by Matt Strassler

An illustration of coloured waves and equations depicting fractal elements, grids and symbols
Serious matter Interactions with the Higgs energy give mass to the known elementary particles, excluding the Higgs boson. According to Matt Strassler, oversimplifications made by journalists when explaining this important concept can hinder public understanding and damage trust in science. (Courtesy: iStock/agsandrew)
Turn off the Higgs field – an energy field thought to emanate throughout the universe – and life

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