By Science News
Higgs love
Tom Siegfried’s essay “Behind the Higgs” (SN: 7/28/12, p. 26) may be the best piece of science journalism I’ve seen. He explained enough about the Higgs boson’s importance in the scheme of things for me to read about different aspects of the work and see how they fit into the whole picture, but even more, to get how impressive the symmetry of the picture is (pun intended) and how validating of the scientific method itself the work has been.
Ed Sylvester, Tempe, Ariz.
I love aha moments, and though there has been tons of press on the Higgs boson, it wasn’t until I read Tom Siegfried’s editorial “Nature’s Secrets Foretold (SN: 7/28/12, p. 28) that I finally had one for Higgs! I looked at a couple supposedly explanatory pieces on the Huffington Post, and even watched the YouTube videos, saving this piece for last. This fine piece described the origination of Higgs after sufficient cooling and a split between electromagnetic and weak forces. I was merrily taking notes until….