Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, aka “The God Particle.” The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.
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According to BBC.com, both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their data worthy of a “discovery.”
More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.
The results announced at Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research), home of the LHC in Geneva, were met with loud applause and cheering.
Prof Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, wiped a tear from his eye as the teams finished their presentations in the Cern auditorium.
Prof Stephen Hawking joined in the conversation:
“This is an important result and should earn Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize, but it is a pity in a way because the great advances in physics have come from experiments that gave results we didn’t expect.”
We will be following up on the story to inform you on the magnitude of this discovery!
