Harry Cliff

Harry Cliff

Particle Physicist, University of Cambridge
I am a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge, a populariser of science and a science writer. I work on an experiment called LHCb, which is a giant particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where we study elementary particles – the basic building blocks of our universe.
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Harry Cliff
Looking at the history of particle physics is a good way to understand what we currently know about the basic building blocks of our universe.
Harry Cliff
The Higgs boson is so important to our understanding of particle physics that it was hyperbolically referred to as the “God Particle”.
Harry Cliff
The most straightforward problem to explain is the mystery of dark matter.
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