print email comment close Ideas: The Higgs Boson URL: http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html Description: "What determines your mass ... [is] one of the most-asked, most-hotly pursued questions in physics today." This site provides background information about this question and an overview of the Higgs boson, "a particle, or set of particles, that might give others mass." Includes illustrations and links to research on the Higgs boson. From the Exploratorium. Publisher: The Exploratorium Library of Congress Subject Headings: Higgs bosons Mass (Physics) Physics LII Database Information: Record 12796 created by Jennifer English on 03/15/2004 Last modification on 03/16/2004 Published: 03/15/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12796