Since the idea from the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, or CERN, came about to build the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) with a price tag of $10bn, questions were raised about its
validity in the scientific community to contribute enough
knowledge that would justify the large investment. It uses
immense amounts of energy to fling particles in opposite
directions around a tunnel, 27 kilometres in circumference, to
collide at the rate of about 3 metres per second slower than the
speed of light. One of the primary missions of the LHC since its
completion in 2008 has been to discover the existence of the
Higgs boson. It is thought to hold the key to understanding the
fundamental workings of the universe (something we think we
understand better than we actually do), or at least, one of the
most important pieces to the yet unsolved puzzle. It’s the last
undiscovered piece of the widely accepted theory of particle
physics, the Standard Model. Nicknamed the “God particle”, the
Higgs would explain a rudimentar