Last updated on March 16, 2014 at 0:02 EDT  ‘God Particle’
Mystery Could Be Solved Next Year  May 18, 2011  Physicists may
finally be close to answering one of the biggest mysteries in
science ““ whether or not a “God particle”, or Higgs boson,
exists.  In theory, the Higgs boson is responsible for mass,
without which there would be no gravity and no universe. The
notional sub-atomic Higgs particle was named after British
physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed its existence in 1964.
Until now, the massive energies required to extract the Higgs
from the building blocks of matter have not been available. 
However, physicists said Tuesday they now believe that by the
end of next year they will be able to determine whether or not
the theoretical particle exists.  “I’m pretty confident that
towards the end of 2012 we will have an answer to the
Shakespeare question for the Higgs boson — to be, or not to be?”
said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), during a pr