Almost half a century ago, the English physicist Peter Higgs hypothesized the presence of a fundamental particle: the Higgs boson. Today Rolf Heuer, the director general of Cern (the European organization for nuclear research) confirmed the existence of this particle at the Geneva conference, also underlining the importance and value of this discovery, which will allow us to understand the reason for where certain particles have a certain mass and others do not.
They call it the "God particle", precisely because the confirmation of its existence will close a long chapter in the history of physics, but at the same time it will open a new one. The future of science is marked from this moment and other questions arise that can now be deciphered. Among these, the mystery of the beginning of the universe and the hypothesis that there are other dimensions. Joe Incandela, of the University of California (who announced the data) points out that the discovery is "one of the largest observations of new phenomena in our field in the last 30 or 40 years".
Now the press conference is underway in Geneva where the data to prove the existence of the boson are presented by Joe Incandela with the Cms, together with the Italian Fabiola Gianotti. The search for the Higgs boson ends and the confirmation of its existence gives 83-year-old Peter Higgs an important chance to win the next Nobel prize for physics.
