CERN to announce new findings Wednesday

Guardian : On 4 July scientists working at CERN plan to announce the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider. In the meantime, the news media are speculating whether they have discovered the Higgs boson, or another, more exotic type of particle. Because the Higgs boson decays almost immediately upon being created, researchers cannot detect it directly. Rather, they look for spikes in the numbers of subatomic particles, such as photons and quarks, into which the Higgs would decay. The discovery of the Higgs “would prove there is an invisible energy field that fills the vacuum throughout the observable universe,” writes Alok Jha for the Guardian. Without that field, “we would not be here.”