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Finding Higgs Boson, or God Particle, Will Resolve Scientific Mysteries

Isolating the Higgs Boson, or God particle, would resolve some of the biggest mysteries of modern physics.

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Discovering the Higgs Boson would finally ignite the bonfire of the infinities. For half a century particle physics has been haunted by the specter of the “Infinity Puzzle”–its theories giving nonsensical answers of “infinity” for quantities that are experimentally known to be finite.

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