| Peter Del Bosque | 07/05/2012 1:06AM
Talk about a paradigm shift. Although many physicists agreed there was some kind of sub-atomic particle responsible for the property of weight, there had never been any evidence to support this claim. Thanks, to the group responsible for creating the European Center for Nuclear Research, aka CERN and developing the 17 mile circular Large Hadron Collider, we now have new and groundbreaking incite on the elusive Higgs Boson particle.
The particle was first predicted, described and explained in theory by Scottish born physicist Peter Higgs, who by the way is still very much alive and was able to be present at the ceremonious particle collision. Higgs told Associated Press,
"It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said, calling the discovery a huge achievement for the proton-smashing collider.
In an interview with the BBC, famous physicist Stephen Hawking was surprised and admitted to losing a $100 bet about whether the Higgs Boson particle would ever be found. That's one bet I'm sure he didn't mind losing.
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