Steven Hawking On The Future Of CERN
Physicist Steven Hawking on a Zero-Gravity Flight, 2007 NASA That Steven Hawking, always looking for trouble. In a speech at the London Science Museum, the physicist said "physics would be far more interesting" if scientists had been unable to find evidence of the Higgs boson. Of course this would have been interesting—the Higgs boson was predicted to exist if the prevailing theory of how matter and energy work is true. The model is even called the Standard Model. Here's how CERN describes it: Developed in the early 1970s, it has successfully explained almost all experimental results and precisely predicted a wide variety of phenomena. Over time and through many experiments, the Standard Model has become established as a well-tested physics theory. If, even after science's best efforts, physicists had been unable to find evidence of the Higgs boson, they would...