Most Wanted Particle by Jon Butterworth
  • 1. What is the primary focus of Jon Butterworth's book 'Most Wanted Particle'?
A) Quantum mechanics
B) The theory of relativity
C) The discovery of black holes
D) The search for the Higgs boson
  • 2. Which particle is considered to be a key to understanding mass?
A) Higgs boson
B) Electron
C) Photon
D) Neutrino
  • 3. What international facility is most associated with the search for the Higgs boson?
A) CERN
B) Fermilab
C) NASA
D) SLAC
  • 4. What particle accelerator was used to discover the Higgs boson?
A) LEP
B) Tevatron
C) Large Hadron Collider
D) SPS
  • 5. In which year was the Higgs boson discovered?
A) 2008
B) 2012
C) 2015
D) 2010
  • 6. Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for the discovery of the Higgs boson?
A) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
B) Marie Curie and Albert Einstein
C) Richard Feynman and John Bell
D) Francois Englert and Peter Higgs
  • 7. What does the Higgs mechanism explain?
A) Quantum entanglement
B) The speed of light
C) The formation of galaxies
D) How particles acquire mass
  • 8. What is a common misconception about the Higgs boson that Butterworth addresses?
A) That it can be produced easily
B) That it gives mass to all particles
C) That it exists everywhere in space
D) That it is the heaviest particle
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