Higgs boson confirmed

July 4, 2012

Physicists at CERN announced that the Large Hadron Collider, the most complex machine ever built, had detected a new particle behaving exactly like the long-predicted Higgs boson, the field responsible for giving everything else mass. Peter Higgs, eighty-three, wiped his eyes in the audience in Geneva. Forty-eight years of painstaking theoretical and experimental work had finally found its missing piece.