CERN Discovers New Particle, Likely Higgs Boson | Talking Points Memo

The “God Particle” has likely been located. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced early on Wednesday morning Eastern time that it had definitely found a new particle “consistent” with the long-sought Higgs boson, the elusive “God particle” predicted by the widely-accepted Standard Model of particle physics but never before observed until now.


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