The Higgs Boson The God Particle

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In July of 2013 the Higgs Boson was finally discovered by physicists. Peter Higgs put the idea of a God Particle to other physicists way back in 1964 and physicists have been searching for it ever since. Physicists world wide rejoiced on this day. Two experiments were instrumental in finding and confirming the results. CMS and ATLAS. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois and CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research.on the Swiss French border were both hugely involved in the experiments to find the HIggs Boson. My son was attending Purdue University Calumet Campus and worked on the CMS Compact Muon Solenoid experiment for both Fermi and Cern. He was sent results of the experiments in graph form and was responsible for checking for anomalies. He was sent these graphs online and often had to get up early in the mornings for video conferences with the physicists in France. On some occasions he had to give a report on his findings. It always made him nervous when he had to do this. It was a momentous day in the world of physics and a news conference was held at Purdue University that day. My son informed me of this and I was the only parent at the news conference and my son reported his role in the discovery. He tells me it was a very small part, as thousands of people were involved in it. But this mom was very proud of her son. To be involved in something that has been searched for for decades and was so very important was amazing for my son and this proud mom. The team from Purdue University was on the news for several days and made the papers in the area as well. I have the video of the news and numerous copies of those newspapers. My son has since gotten his Bachelors Degree in Physics from Purdue University and just got his Master's Degree in Astrophysics, from Michigan State University where he will continue on to get his PhD. The picture I have here is of my son on the day the Higgs Boson was discovered at the news conference at Purdue giving his report. I don't know a darn thing about physics so please if I have gotten something wrong chalk it up to my complete ignorance of the world of physics.