Humankind’s Existentially Lucky Numbers

Waterloo Bridge, 1901 ~ Claude Monet

George Johnson

The Large Hadron Collider sprung back to life this month, smashing subatomic particles with nearly double the energy used to discover the Higgs boson, a landmark in understanding the makeup of the physical world. With the Higgs now in the bag, researchers are setting their sights on more exotic fare: signs of a new physics that not only describes the universe but explains why it is the way it is.

JUNE 22, 2015, The New York Times