July 4 was one of those exceptional, watershed days for physicists. Years from now, a group of lucky physicists will still smugly tell colleagues and awe-inspired students, “I was there when they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.”

The rest of us will likely go, “Huh?”

You have to understand, this is a pretty big deal. Just read what someone who was there had to say about it. Continue reading »