Sean Carroll on The Particle at the End of the Universe

For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it. In this 2013 Sydney Ideas lecture, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explained why the Higgs boson is so important, talked about the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and considered what the future of particle physics will look like. For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/sean_carroll.shtml