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Fazlur Rahman
One of nature’s most challenging puzzles appears to have been solved, with the discovery earlier this summer of the “Higgs boson,” a subatomic particle that is said to give mass to everything and explain what holds the universe together. Already the Higgs boson has become a familiar concept around the world, in part because of its inspired designation as the “God particle,” as it was described some years ago by...
