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...mile underground ring designed to smash atoms together at high energies, was created in part to find proof of a hypothetical subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. According to current theory, the Higgs is responsible for imparting mass to all things in the universe. But ever since the British physicist Peter Higgs first postulated the existence of the particle in 1964, attempts to capture the particle have failed, and often for unexpected, seemingly inexplicable reasons...
...Paradoxically, if all goes exactly according to plan, scientists could find themselves no better off than before. “Even if it does work, if they turn it on and find nothing new at all—if they don’t find [the hitherto unseen] Higgs Boson, for example, or if they find stuff they expect to discoverer and nothing else, it is unclear what the future of that field is,” said Stubbs...
...entity known as “dark matter,” which is believed to compose 96 percent of the universe, and “antimatter,” which has the same mass as matter but the opposite electric charge, explained Huth. “The Higgs Boson is the simplest model for explaining what happens in the theory and that’s what we’re designing for,” said Huth. “We aren’t under any illusions that that’s going to be the answer?...
...More importantly, this class of collider is vital to physics research. It has the potential to provide better answers to some of physics’ most niggling questions, like whether a Higgs Boson, the aforementioned “God Particle,” actually exists, or if the four fundamental forces in physics are all really the same force...
...Another goal of the collider is the discovery of the Higgs boson, the particle that is believed to give other particles their mass. The Higgs boson is the only particle from physics’ long-dominant Standard Model not to have been verified experimentally...