![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lesser scientists were more concerned about his forays into the theoretical wilderness, though. Paul Dirac’s confidence in the beauty and truth of mathematical reasoning meant he was seldom worried that the comforting embrace of corroborative experimental results was often a very long way behind him. The Strangest Man is the tale of the brilliant physicist who first took similar bold leaps into the theoretical unknown. Since he dreamed it up, there has been not a shred of direct evidence for its existence – not that physicists seem too bothered yet. One motivation for building the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva is to look for the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle postulated by the Edinburgh physicist Peter Higgs in the 1960s. The media circus that accompanied the grand switch-on in September of the “Big Bang machine” showed just how far we’ve come to accept the idea that small and bizarre sub-atomic particles can be conjured from the depths of the brain. ![]()
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