Higgs boson: Has the ‘God particle’ been found?
It’s been dubbed the “God particle,” although if it could speak for itself, it might be a bit more modest about its pedigree.
For more than a century, physicists have painstakingly built the so-called standard model of physics, which catalogs a clutch of fundamental particles, describes their traits, and explains their interactions. The Higgs boson is a relative latecomer to the menagerie and represents the Standard Model’s last undetected fundamental particle.