The centuries old question of why the universe has mass may be one step closer to being answered.
The European nuclear physics lab Cern announced it has discovered a particle that fits the bill for the elusive Higgs Boson - the theoretical particle thought to be responsible for generating mass.
If it is the Higgs it will be the final missing ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, the theory which explains all known particles and the forces that act upon them.
The candidate particle was identified by experiments inside the lab’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator - which bangs together sub-atomic particles at close to the speed of light and then analyses the resulting debris. The energy of these collisions is equivalent to that billionths of a second after the Big Bang.
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