Here we are at the start of a new year and the end of an old one,
and what an amazing year it has been for the scientific community.
I suppose that, as I am a particle
physicist by training, the top story of the year must be the
discovery of the decade, the Higgs Boson which was finally found last
July. I have already written a dozen reviews and summaries of this
event and the theory behind it, so I won't write too much now, but I
will say that this finishes off the Standard Model as predic...
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