Gallery: Higgs boson interpreted as gorgeous papercraft
Zim & Zou's papercrafts are legendary. The duo's latest project involved papercraft interpretations of the Higgs boson for French magazine Le Monde.
Visualizing a particle no one has ever seen before is a tall order, even for the likes of Zim & Zou. Using the barest materials including paper, tin foil, balloons and rubber balls, Zim & Zou came up with the following representations highlighting the importance of the Higgs particle.
The five-piece spread is minimal compared to the duo's other works, such as this crazily detailed Game Boy, but still manages to capture the bold unknowns of scientific discovery.
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All captions and images created by Zim & Zou for Le Monde
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"Representation of a collision of protons (based on a graph from the CERN). The rings range from infinitely large, to infinitely small."
"Higgs boson is the last piece of a puzzle assembled by physicists since 50 years to describe the matter of the Universe."
"Higgs boson is the particule that gives other particules their mass."
"The matter is a blend of multiple scales of elements. Quarks assemble into protons or neutrons. They are forming nuclei which, by combining with electrons, creates atoms."
"By studying the relationship of the Higgs boson with other particles, physicists hope to better understand the universe."
