“We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics,” Rolf
Heuer, Director of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), told
scientists amid cheers and standing ovation. “As a layman, I think we
did it,” he said. “We’ve a discovery. We’ve observed a new particle that
is consistent with a Higgs boson.”
The Higgs boson, which until now was a theoretical particle, is seen as
the key to understanding why matter has mass. It is mass that combines
with gravity to give an object weight. The idea is much like gravity and
Isaac Newton’s discovery of it. Gravity existed even before Newton
explained it. But now scientists see something much like the Higgs boson
and can put that knowledge to further use.
The Higgs boson, which until now was a theoretical particle, is seen as
the key to understanding why matter has mass. It is mass that combines
with gravity to give an object weight. The idea is much like gravity and
Isaac Newton’s discovery of it. Gravity existed even before Newton
explained it. But now scientists see something much like the Higgs boson
and can put that knowledge to further use. 
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