Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN facility on the French-Swiss border today confirmed what many have suspected over the past few months — they have discovered a new subatomic particle that appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson, which is widely regarded as the key to why some elementary particles have mass, and thus why a universe with matter (and us) exists at all.

With the words “I think we have it,” director Rolf-Dieter Heuer signaled the longest (and most expensive!) search in the history of science. While more work needs to be done, the

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