Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, speaks with British
physicist… (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty…) For physicists, it
was a moment like landing on the moon or the discovery of DNA.
The focus was the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists
for a mere fraction of a second. Long theorized but never
glimpsed, the so-called God particle is thought to be key to
understanding the existence of all mass in the universe. The
revelation Wednesday that it -- or some version of it -- had
almost certainly been detected amid more than hundreds of
trillions of high-speed collisions in a 17-mile track near
Geneva prompted a group of normally reserved scientists to erupt
with joy. For The Record Los Angeles Times Friday, July 06, 2012
Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 48
words Type of Material: Correction Large Hadron Collider: In
some copies of the July 5 edition, an article in Section A about
the machine used by physicists at the European Organization for
Nuclear Research to search for the