ARTICLE · 06 SEPTEMBER 2012

ACTA Is No Higgs Boson

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This month will be remembered in history as the month where a particle with many similarities to a Higgs Boson was discovered.

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Antonio Ghio

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This month will be remembered in history as the month where a particle with many similarities to a Higgs Boson was discovered. Through the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, we are now one step closer towards the confirmation of the existence of a proposed elementary model in the Standard Model of particle physics – the elusive Higgs Boson.

The beginning of July 2012 also saw the European Parliament widely rejecting the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) following mass public outroar. But ACTA is no Higgs Boson.

While scientists are now eager to frame all accepted theories of the creation and makings of the universe through the newfound lens of the latest CERN discovery, legislators are still trying to understand what will be the next step in the ACTA saga.

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ACTA Is No Higgs Boson

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