Posted bymajesticon July 4, 2012

CERN has indicated that after many false starts, it has finally found proof of the elusive “God Particle,” a/k/a the Higgs boson. It’s widely being hailed as the most significant scientific discovery of our generation, etc.

But what exactly is it? We thought this video about CERN’s operation of the Large Hadron Collider might be especially useful:

The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.