After more than half a century and billions of dollars being spent in the quest, at last the Higgs boson a.k.a the "God particle" has been found.
Peter Higgs proposed the existance of the Higgs boson in the 1960's as a solution to the standard model of particle physics whereby in order for the model to work as described there had to exist a particle (the Higgs boson) which would be responsible for giving mass to all the other particles. According to this model, other particles do not inherently have mass of their own but rather acquire mass under the influence of the Higg's field exerted by the Higg's boson.
Peter Higgs proposed the existance of the Higgs boson in the 1960's as a solution to the standard model of particle physics whereby in order for the model to work as described there had to exist a particle (the Higgs boson) which would be responsible for giving mass to all the other particles. According to this model, other particles do not inherently have mass of their own but rather acquire mass under the influence of the Higg's field exerted by the Higg's boson.