A group of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva claim they’ve discovered a subatomic particle that closely matches the description of the fabled Higgs boson, otherwise known as the God Particle.
CERN director general Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they’ve discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle–or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to be
What does it all mean? It could take many years to fully understand. “It’s helping us understand the big universal question, which is what are we made out of,” says Philippe Di Stefano, a physics professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Please read our other article about how quantum physics can help to explain God.
The Higgs was proposed in 1964 and it is the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the theory that describes the basic building blocks of the universe. The other 11 particles predicted by the model have been found – the Higgs is the last jigsaw piece. Experts compare the search for the Higgs boson to the discovery of the electron.
Theory has it that as the universe cooled after the Big Bang, an invisible force known as the Higgs field formed.
This field permeates the cosmos and is made up of countless numbers of tiny particles known as Higgs bosons. As other particles pass through it, they pick up mass.
Any benefits in the wider world from the discovery of the Higgs boson will be long-term, but they could be in fields as diverse as medicine, computing and manufacturing. Indeed its a very exiting time not just for scientists but all of humanity. To be able to get down to the building blocks of creation is very special. Read more on the original article. As the ancient Greek schema mentions, the Macrocosm is in the Microcosm; or the whole can be seen in the smallest part, and vice-versa.
In an artist’s conception, A higgs Boson Proton (God particle) erupts from a collision of protons
