Physicists are stoked today. The theoretical Higgs boson particle, long sought by physicists and sometimes called "The God Particle," has likely been found by researchers using the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Confirmation of the discovery would be a major step forward in our understanding of the universe.
The Higgs, assuming it exists, is much heavier than a proton. Physicists think it is the key in explaining why there is mass in the universe. Absent the Higgs, therefore, nothing we see around us would exist.
The Higgs is also predicted by the Standard Model of the creation of the universe. Discovery of the Higgs, therefore, would also strengthen the Standard Model.
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