“God Particle” may have been discovered by the Scientists

            A long wait of mighty fifty years or so may have ended when the scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that they had discovered a new sub atomic particle, which is assumed to be the missing Higgs boson, popularly known as “God Particle”.

             Eventually the Higgs boson holds the most important key to understand why every single matter has a unique mass and how life came to exist in this universe. These are the two most important questions that are yet to be answered.

             Scientists showed their astonishing new sorts of data of their long search for the mysterious particle. CERN director general Rolf Heuer shed tears of joy. He said, “We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature”. Though he also expressed a sign of cautiousness, as he strengthened on the fact that future work is needed to identify what exactly had been found.  “As a layman I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say what do we have?” Heuer told on the press conference. Eventually this is the heaviest boson to be ever found.

              The lead scientists of the two independent LHC experiments are Italian particle physicist Fabiola Giannotti (lead the ATLAS experiment) and the US born particle physicist Joe Incandela (lead the CMS experiment).

Now let’s look into some questions to understand the matter properly.

What is the Higgs boson?

Ans: - Higgs boson is the last missing piece of the Standard Model Theory of Physics, which mainly describes the basic building blocks of the Universe. In 1964, three reputed scientists Higgs, Brout and Englert predicted it must exist to explain the most important property of all matter-it’s mass. But till now it was never experimentally confirmed.

Why has it been called “God Particle”?

Ans: Noble laureate physicist Leon Lederman wanted to name his book as “The Goddamn Particle: If the universe is the Answer, What is the Question?”. But his editor changed it to “God Particle”, though this name is slightly misleading according to the various scientists.

How was it found?

Ans: - A Higgs boson-like particle has been discovered at the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is situated at 300 feet underground near Geneva. LHC is mainly designed to speed up the protons in a very high manner and then it smashed them together to create tiny fireballs, recreating conditions that prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second old.

Why is the discovering so important?

Ans:-This discovery would confirm the Standard Model of Physics. Other particles, which were predicted by this theory, have already been detected. Ans now the missing Higgs boson is believed to be discovered, scientists now can be able to look at the other riddles of the cosmos like the mysterious dark matter and energy, antimatter, super symmetry etc with a lot more surety.

Why can’t Scientists confirm the finding with certainty?

Ans: - Scientists are being rigorous as their nature. They are saying that they have found a particle that fits the predicted Higgs boson range of mass, but on the other hand they have yet to completely identify its other properties. They have to explain all current observations, including the slightly higher than expected energy and absence of some other particles. So it will take some time for sure.

            The pioneer, who eventually first told the world about this particle, the84 year old British scientist Peter Higgs said, “I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.”