Here's the Guardian's Ian Sample on Tuesday explaining this whole Higgs Boson thingummy whatsit using some ping pong balls, a bag of sugar and a tray from the work canteen (click here to watch video).
It's good isn't it. So good in fact, I could watch it again. Which is handy, because here's the BBC's Jonathan Amos on Wednesday explaining this whole Higgs Boson thingummy whatsit using some ping pong balls, a bag of sugar and a tray from the work canteen (click here to watch video).
I don't know enough about Higgs Boson to rule out the notion that using some ping pong balls, a bag of sugar and a tray from the work canteen isn't a painfully obvious way of explaining it. But certainly a few commenters online were quick to question the striking similarities between the BBC and Guardian demonstrations.
Updated: The BBC has now added a line crediting The Guardian and Ian Sample:
The demonstration is taken from an idea originally devised by Ian Sample of the Guardian. See also the classic analogy from UCL's David Miller, and one from Don Lincoln from Fermilab who uses water.
(Hat tips: Tom Phillips and Kai Muxlow.)
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