I'm not normally a fan of the type of science articles posted in mainstream press…they're normally too "human-interest-y", but for some reason I didn't mind that in this article.
Then Dr. Sharma was alerted to a blog post. There it was reported that a rival team of physicists had beaten his team to the discovery of the Higgs boson — the long-sought “God particle.”
If his rivals were right, it would mean a cascade of Nobel Prizes flowing in the wrong direction and, even more vexingly, that Dr. Sharma and his colleagues had missed one of nature’s clues and thus one of its greatest prizes; that the dream of any physicist — to know something that nobody else has ever known — was happening to someone else.
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Chasing the Higgs: How 2 Teams of Rivals Searched for Physics’ Most Elusive Particle
At the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, two armies of physicists struggled to close in on the Higgs boson, the Great White Whale of modern science.
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It irks me that the mainstream media insists on using the term "the god particle" when Higgs actually called it "the goddamn particle".