The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care About The God Particle.

Scientists have identified the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Image credit: CERN

The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care About the God Particle. And, Sadly, Why You Don't -- Forbes

Here’s what you need to know about the God Particle.

The Higgs boson (Higgs is a guy’s name, BTW, and a boson is a subatomic particle) is the biggest scientific discovery of the 21st Century. Period.

This discovery is up there with Copernicus. If we did not find the Higgs boson, everything that we understood about how the universe works would have been wrong. We would have had nice equations that describe things we observed in the world, but they would have been crap. That would have been $10 billion flushed down the toilet with the creation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and we would have gone back to the drawing board with our tail between our legs after fifty years of an aimless pursuit.

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