“My colleagues thought I was a bit of an idiot.
Physicist Peter Higgs describes the initial reaction in the 1960s to his theory of how subatomic particles acquire mass, involving the still-undetected Higgs boson. He hopes the particle will be discovered soon by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland (Associated Press, 7 April)
No one thought to open them up – there was no real reason to believe that they could be lungless. If you have just one specimen in your museum, you don’t want to rip it up.
David Bickford of the…
