A technician works in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. AP
Monday July 4 marks 10 years since one of the most celebrated scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century: the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle that is key to understanding the universe. Getty Images
Peter Higgs, now 93, predicted the existence of the particle that bears his name in 1964. Photo: CERN
Former European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) director generals Christopher Llewelyn-Smith, CERN scientific director Lyn Evans, Herwig Schopper, Luciano Maiani and Robert Aymard on July 4, 2012, during a seminar in Geneva on the latest update in the 50-year bid to explain a riddle of fundamental matter in the search for a particle called the Higgs boson. AFP
The Large Hadron Collider while under construction at CERN. It is a 27-kilometre pipe in which particles are flung at each other at almost the speed of light. PA
The Large Hadron Collider started up in 2008 and was the first of its kind powerful enough to generate enough evidence for the Higgs — which is produced in about one in every billion of these collisions. PA
Peter Higgs theorised in 1964 that particles whizzing around the universe pick up their mass by travelling through an invisible field — a bit like a vehicle ploughing through snow. Getty Images
Visitors take pictures at the tunnels during an open day at the CERN particle physics research facility in Meyrin, Switzerland. Getty Images
The CERN Computer / Data Centre and server farm is seen during a behind the scenes tour at CERN. Getty Images
A technician works in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. AP
Monday July 4 marks 10 years since one of the most celebrated scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century: the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle that is key to understanding the universe. Getty Images
Peter Higgs, now 93, predicted the existence of the particle that bears his name in 1964. Photo: CERN
Former European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) director generals Christopher Llewelyn-Smith, CERN scientific director Lyn Evans, Herwig Schopper, Luciano Maiani and Robert Aymard on July 4, 2012, during a seminar in Geneva on the latest update in the 50-year bid to explain a riddle of fundamental matter in the search for a particle called the Higgs boson. AFP
The Large Hadron Collider while under construction at CERN. It is a 27-kilometre pipe in which particles are flung at each other at almost the speed of light. PA
The Large Hadron Collider started up in 2008 and was the first of its kind powerful enough to generate enough evidence for the Higgs — which is produced in about one in every billion of these collisions. PA
Peter Higgs theorised in 1964 that particles whizzing around the universe pick up their mass by travelling through an invisible field — a bit like a vehicle ploughing through snow. Getty Images
Visitors take pictures at the tunnels during an open day at the CERN particle physics research facility in Meyrin, Switzerland. Getty Images
The CERN Computer / Data Centre and server farm is seen during a behind the scenes tour at CERN. Getty Images
A technician works in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. AP
