Particle physics usually has a hard time competing with
politics and celebrity gossip for headlines, but the Higgs
boson has garnered some serious attention. That's
exactly what happened on July 4, 2012, though, when
scientists at CERN announced that they'd found a
particle that behaved the way they expect the Higgs
boson to behave. Maybe the famed boson's grand and
controversial nickname, the "God Particle," has kept
media outlets buzzing. Then again, the intriguing
possibility that the Higgs boson is responsible for all the
mass in the universe rather captures the imagination,
too. of perhaps we're...