THE hunt for the theoretical "God particle" that lends mass to matter and holds the universe together could soon be over.
Scientists at Cern, giving a progress report on the search using the Large Hadron Collider, believe they are almost at the point of confirming the existence of the Higgs boson, named after Peter Higgs, the Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics.
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