CERN Peels The Particle Onion

CERN Large Hadron Collider - what you don't see is the 27km accelerator ring

To journalists and most news consumers it is "the God particle." To particle physicists it's the Higgs boson, the smallest building block of matter, the stuff that gives "mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed."

Scientist have looked for the Higgs boson for fifty years. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the folks who operate the massive Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border, have an important announcement coming Wednesday about the Higgs. It seems they have enough "fingerprints" to confirm observations of this elusive piece of the universal puzzle. It is an exciting time for physics geeks everywhere. Read more about the story in this Telegraph article.

We may have a big answer coming in two days, but keep in mind that it will generate many new questions. That is the nature of science.