Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers

Follow along as the physicists at Fermilab, the most powerful particle accelerator in the United States, attempt to unlock the secret behind the so-called Holy Grail of physics by discovering why everything has mass. It was nearly forty years ago that Scottish scientist Peter Higgs theorized the existence of the God particle (aka the Higgs boson), and physicists have been locked in a global scale race to prove its existence ever since. The scientist who can claim credit for that discovery w...