Summer, 2012
This is a single lecture in which Professor Susskind explains the physics of the Higgs Boson shortly after the discovery of this famous particle was announced. (Image credit: CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider)
Lectures in this Course
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Demystifying the Higgs Boson
Professor Susskind presents an explanation of what the Higgs mechanism is, and what it means to "give mass to particles." He also explains what's at stake for the future of physics and cosmology.