So the proposer of the Higgs boson, the so-called – but erroneously called – ‘God’ particle,  has died. At the age of 94. Not bad going.

It seems he was a fairy humble man and the attention his Nobel Prize brought him wasn’t to his taste.

The discovery of the Higgs boson was a fine example of the scientific method. Its existence was predicted by Higgs’s calculations but failure to find it at the appropriate energies would have necessitated the theory underpinning his ideas would need to be abandoned. As it is the reason why particles have mass seems to have been established beyond doubt.

Peter Ware Higgs: 29/5/1929 – 8/4/2024. So it goes.