Speculation has hit fever pitch that the Higgs boson has been found. Why else would CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva in Switzerland, host a Higgs search seminar on 4 July at 9am, one day before the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) kicks off in Melbourne, Australia? CERN physicists are, understandably, tight-lipped. New Scientist will be at CERN on Wednesday, and you can follow the news as it unfolds via our live updates. In the meantime, here's our analysis of what could happen and why we should care.
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