Scientists closer than ever to finding Higgs boson, the ‘god particle’
British physicist Peter Higgs, seen here visiting CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2008, was one of six scientists who proposed the Higgs mechanism as a theory of how particles acquired mass.
Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland say they may found the elusive Higgs boson, better known as the 'god particle.'
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