It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving, incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.

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Awardwinning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the historymaking forces of insight, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs search and how its discovery opens a door into the mindboggling domain of dark matter and other phenomena we never predicted.

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