Image: Paul McDevitt) Image: Paul McDevitt)
Higgs boson delivered by truck
WHAT led to the Large Hadron Collider’s confirmation in July of the existence of the Higgs boson (14 July, p 6)?
The LHC straddles the French-Swiss border close to Geneva. Derek Christie writes in to tell us that people living near Geneva suspect that the mass-giving particle was, in fact, delivered by a local Swiss trucking company, Boson Transports.
To back up the theory, Derek points us to the company’s website – boson-transports.ch – and a photo of one of its lorries (bit.ly/Higgslorry).
“If CERN physicists had known of the existence of this trucking company,” Derek…
