God particle

Maclean’s archives: A special report from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

Or rather, ‘restaurant,’ where CERN physicists can eat three meals a day—and talk science

Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher have announced the discovery of a brand-new particle—and it looks an awful lot like the long-sought Higgs boson, also known as the “God particle,” without which the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist.

Canadian university researchers among international team