Scientists close to the hunt for the long-sought “God particle,” the Higgs boson, may have scooped their colleagues, declaring in recent days that proof of the particle’s existence has indeed been identified.The Higgs is the last major missing piece predicted, but not yet observed, by the Standard Model, the leading theory of the universe’s physical laws. The particle would help explain how all matter in the universe has any mass whatsoever.
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