Well, they found... something. Scientists in Geneva announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that might be the elusive Higgs boson, the basic building block of the universe.<br/> <br />Scientist Joe Incandela described the finding from the CERN research centre near Geneva.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) JOE INCANDELA SCIENTISTS:<br/> <br />"So keep that in mind, this is a very very preliminary result, but we think it's very strong and very solid. Otherwise we wouldn't present it."<br/> <br />The Higgs particle has been described as the missing link that explains how particles clumped together to form stars, planets and even life.<br/> <br />Scientists used this, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest particle accelerator, to smash atoms together at the speed of light.<br/> <br />The energy produced from the collisions led them to Higgs.<br/> <br />The Higgs is the last undiscovered piece of the Standard Model theory-- which is to physicists what the theory of evolution is to biologists.<br/> <br />Julie Noce, Reuters
