Scientists have announced that they are 99.99 percent sure they’ve discovered the sub-atomic particle known as the Higgs boson. Often referred to as the “God particle”, the Higgs boson is an integral part of what scientists call The Standard Model of particle physics, a set of rules that lay out the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Think of it like a puzzle with a missing piece. You can see where the missing piece goes and you think you can imagine what it looks like but you can’t actually see the full picture until you’ve found it. Until now, the Higgs boson was just a theory. It was that missing puzzle piece. If it’s shown to exist, it will prove our understanding of the basic universe correct. Confirming the existence of the particle will take a considerable amount of time, but scientists are optimistic that our knowledge of the universe and its pieces is about to take a big step forward.
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