The discovery of the boson, the subatomic particle that bears his name, led to the Nobel Prize in Physics
God particle
It was originally labeled "The Goddamn Particle" by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was referencing his considerable frustration as to just how difficult it was to detect
The Large Hadron Collider, in a giant physics lab near Geneva, has been dormant for the last three years
The development opens up new theories about dark matter or dark energy in physics