Scientists May Never Have Found The God Particle Without The Richest Family In Brazil
- 2013-03-15
One of the greatest scientific discoveries in the our modern history may not have been possible without Brazil’s richest family, the Salles, Bloomberg reports.
Physicists believe they’re very close to finding Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle”. It’s a subatomic particle that would help explain what gives matter all over the universe its size and shape.
The Salles family produce niobium, an element that makes steel more flexible and strong. Niobium is used in a 10th of all the world’s steel — in everything from cars to cameras.
