Smashing Physics

The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Peter Higgs and François Englert, who predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize.

Finding it took the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And how has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature? And what did it feel like to be part of it?