The Glue That Holds Everything Together

In 2012, physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that had eluded scientists for nearly fifty years. They called it "the God particle," not as a theological statement, but because without it, nothing in the universe should hold together. Without the Higgs field, atoms would fly apart.…