Higgs Boson: The Higgs boson made simple

Tuesday night s expected announcement that physicists have discovered the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle is exciting the large contingent of UC and Stanford scientists involved in the international project.Scientists at CERN are expected to announce they can all but prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle but have not yet isolated it.So what's the Higgs boson, and why are people spending billions of dollars to find that god-danged subatomic particle? I've

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