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According to the staff of the DVICE website, CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research - is expected to announce on Wednesday, with 99.99% certainty, that evidence has been found of the Higgs Boson.

The theory about the existence of the Higgs boson - the elementary particle that emerged shortly after the Big Bang and which would have given rise to all matter in the universe - emerged as early as the 1960s, but scientists had not been able to prove it with no kind of experiment. So far, apparently.

Standard model of particle physics

All the fundamental particles that make up matter, as well as their forces, were described by the standard model. Thus, it is through it that physicists can develop the equipment needed to prove the existence of these theoretical particles.

So far, the existence of all of them - from quarks to neutrinos - has been experimentally detected, confirming that the standard model was correct. The last of these would be the Higgs Boson, which took so long to detect due to the energy required to reproduce one in the lab.

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The standard model explains almost everything

The standard model also serves to predict how these particles should behave. However, it is only through experiments that physicists can prove whether the model is really right.

And while it is absolutely correct about the existence of many things, there are some superimportant questions that could not be explained yet. Some of these include the force of gravity, time, dark matter, and antimatter.

So if the Higgs boson is actually confirmed tomorrow, physicists may be concerned about explaining some of the issues we mentioned above. On the other hand, if their existence is not confirmed, it would mean a failure on the basis of standard physics, and perhaps scientists do not have to go to a revolutionary new theory?

Sources: DVICE and CERN