Explained: Higgs boson 'God particle'
Physicists celebrate evidence of particle
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(FILES) A file photo taken on November 23, 2009 shows scientists chatting at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) control center in the control room of the ATLAS detectors during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva. Physicists said on December 13, 2011 that they had narrowed the search for the elusive sub-atomic Higgs Boson particle that would confirm the way science describes the Universe. Experiments at Europe's giant atom smasher have "reduced the window where scientists think they will find the Higgs boson," also known as the God Particle, said Bruno Mansoulie, a researcher at the CERN. The Higgs boson is the missing link is the so-called Standard Model of physics, which explains how the basic building blocks of all matter fit together. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
