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So it seems CERN has finally found the elusive Higgs Boson (to 5 sigma probability anyway), the carrier particle for the Higgs field proposed by the Standard Model to give mass to particles. Nature: Physicists declare victory in Higgs hunt Phys.org: CERN physicists report strong evidence of Higgs boson This goes someway to verifying the basic postulates of the Standard Model, although it appears its behaviour is not entirely as predicted. Quite amazing the that in one quiet corner of the universe, a bunch of monkeys have built a massive underground doughnut to smash protons together to discover the building blocks of matter. Reality really is stranger than fiction! Would be cool to start a discussion of what people think about the search for the Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of particle physics. Will this model or a variant thereof and experimental facilities such as the LHC be able to prove the existence of dark matter and the proposed extra dimensions of space time? If so, what does this say about the universe we live in and does it have any repercussions for the study of life and consciousness? Exiting times! Reading these articles makes me wish I had studied physics instead of engineering