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Last July 4, 2012 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, confirmed the Higgins Boson particle or what is popularly known as the god particle. It actually tells what holds the universe together. What we deduce from the great laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is that we are glued by a magnetic force field. Yes, glued.
The theory explains that subatomic particles spinning round and round smash together these bits of matter and produce mass. It was theorized around the 1960's only to be confirmed last July 4, 2012 which is a real find considering it has taken decades and a very expensive apparatus to seal its existence to prove likewise how the universe came to exist.
This theory was proposed by Professor Peter Higgs and Professor Francois Englert. By the time the theory was confirmed, Professor Englert had already passed away although Professor Higgs was present to congratulate the current scientists who worked to fulfill the dream of confirming it.
Considered the god particle, this was the pet name Nobel prize-winning author and physicist Leon Lederman called it in his book as against his better judgment of naming it the goddam particle since nobody has ever seen it, actually. Religious intonations of the name have stirred up controversies among scientific circles saying it has got nothing to do with religion at all.
How they did it? In a very huge collider called Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva they literally smashed protons together until they got smaller and smaller, then they sifted thoroughly to get to the bottom of it until they reached very important data.
In any case, this finding is vital to the whole of human race by the fact that it proves how the universe was made up otherwise we'd be just be a bunch of floating substance without any direction or pull of attraction at all.
Currently CERN is planning to reactivate the Collider and find more data over that which has been confirmed. This is due to be done on 2015. It would be like finding a friend or siblings
for the particles which have already been discovered. The theory on the way is called supersymmetry and is a very exciting study on the scientific horizon. The energy on collider is increased and perhaps by doing this find heavier particles to work on.
Further studies may even shed light into what makes up the 95% area of the universe's dark matter as opposed to known structures such as planets and. stars.
