170. Finding the God Particle

Physicist and former pop star Brian Cox tells Steve about discovering the Higgs boson, having a number-one hit, and why particle physics research will almost certainly not create a black hole that destroys all life on earth.

• SOURCES:• Brian Cox (briancoxlive.co.uk), physicist at the University of Manchester.

• RESOURCES:• Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (amazon.com/Black-Holes-Key-Understanding-Unive…), by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (2023).
• "Higgs10: The Higgs boson and the rise of the Standard Model of Particle Physics in the 1970s (home.cern/news/series/higgs10/higgs10-higgs-bo…)," by John Ellis (CERN, 2022).
• Out of Silence, (amazon.com/Out-Silence-Dare/dp/B000006Y10) by Dare (2004).
• "WW scattering at the LHC (cds.cern.ch/record/535124/files/0201098.pdf)," by J. M. Butterworth, Brian Cox, and J. R. Forshaw (CERN, 2002).
• A Brief History of Time (amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/…), by Stephen Hawking (1998).
• "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevL…)," by Roger Penrose (Physical Review Letters, 1965).
• "The Value of Science (dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/feynman_201604…)," by Richard P. Feynman (Internet Archive, 1955).
• "Brian Cox Live (briancoxlive.co.uk)."

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