It might seem like a simple thought; what’s the Higgs boson Worth? That’s a tricky question and one that really doesn’t have an answer, but a man can postulate can’t he!? In a way there are two answers. On the one hand there’s strict economic amount, measured in real dollars and cold hard Euros. The Large Hadron Collider , the massive particle accelerator buried under Switzerland and France, was built at great expense in part to hunt for the elusive particle. Enormous, house-sized detectors are monitoring trillions of particle collisions looking for signals of the fundamental particle that gives matter its mass. To do this, supercomputers spread out at eleven top tier research institutions across the world are diligently picking apart the terabytes of data produced by the colossal machine.
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