# CERN Physicists May Have Discovered Higgs Boson Particle

<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

I don't pretend to understand the significance of the Higgs but assuming this discovery holds this is pretty amazing.

> Physicists working at CERNs Large Hadron Collider said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to understanding why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.

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