The Science Cafe

Thanks to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland physicists now have a more complete understanding of the universe than ever before. But what comes next? Dr. Andeen will explain our current theory of the building blocks that make up our universe. He will describe why the Higgs boson is so important and how we build the enormous experiments that observe these ephemeral particles. Then he’ll discuss the search for exotic new particles. Discovering these minuscule motes of matter could have a tremendous impact on our understanding of the universe as a whole: unraveling the secrets of dark matter, dark energy, the origin of the universe and the nature of gravity.