Scientists find evidence of Higgs boson particle
7/4/12 12:48 PM ET (MarketWatch)Print
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Scientists at Europe's CERN research center announced Wednesday that they had found evidence of a new subatomic particle considered a basic building block of the universe, and imagined by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs a half century ago, media reports said. Two independent studies of data produced by smashing proton particles together at CERN's Large Hadron Collider produced evidence of the existence of the new particle, known as a Higgs boson, a key part in the mechanism that gives all particles their masses, according to Nature. It's sometimes called the "God particle" by laymen for its role in how the universe was created.
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