Massimo Sebastiani meets and celebrates Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the boson which underlies the existence of mass and matter. Why do matter (and some of its derivatives, such as materialism) have such a bad reputation? And is the matter of which dreams are made, of which Shakespeare's Prospero speaks, the same as that of physics? A short journey into this word in the company of some philosophers and a small group of musicians (from Madonna to Marco Mengoni).

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