The Higgs Boson, named for physicist Peter Higgs, is a theoretical subatomic particle and the last unconfirmed piece of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.BBC: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson
CERN LHC Experiment
On September 10, 2008, scientists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, began an experiment which hopes to discover the illusive Higgs Boson, or God Particle. Scientists will use the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator to try to recreate the the Big Bang and answer questions about how the building blocks of matter are created.BBC: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson