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Via   livescience. Read more about the discovery of the boson   here.

After 30 years and 9 billion dollars, CERN scientists working with the LHC have finally  announced   the  discovery of the elusive Higgs boson. The sensitive instruments inside the LHC have experimentally detected a particle at an energy level around 126 GeV (which, in the world of subatomic particles, is a really big fatty), and the scientists over there are 99.99999% sure it's the fabled Higgs boson, as it behaves exactly as theoretically predicted. However, scientists are being understandably careful in calling it a "new boson" - just to be safe, until it's confirmed that it is indeed what they started out to discover in the first place. Heck, the discovery was so big, that Peter Higgs, the man who's given his name to this theoretical - well, not anymore - particle went up in tears when he  explained  just how amazed he was to see his theory proven within his lifetime. The large Hadron Collider - or as the scientists themselves call it: the l...