In July last year the discovery of a new particle made headlines across the world as it was the eureka moment of discovery for thousands of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The discovery of the particle , then called the Boson like or 'Godlike' particle was monumental,  triggering a huge response throughout the scientific community. Scientists at CERN in Geneva said their analysis was based on well researched data and the discovery of the particle  pointed firmly towards the one described by Professor Peter Higgs in 1964 at Edinburgh University.

But now the Higgs Boson discovery is authenticated .

Its been a year and the scientists have declared the particle to be truly the Higgs Boson that they originally discovered. The reluctance to confirm the discovery 100 % is not the fault of the scientists as in particle physics certainty of a discovery can only be confirmed down to the last .01% and now the more the scientists look at the particle the more it resembles the long-sought Higgs Boson that confers mass on the building blocks of nature. The new evidence which is the result of a year long relook at the properties of the particle points towards the end of a decade long search for the particle. It also put the physicists at the journey of a new one ...where do they go from here?

Research teams and scientists have been on a voyage of discovery as far as particle physics is concerned. As more and more particles were discovered quantum mechanics became a household name. Our understanding of the universe and its creation -the fact that particles took on mass and created matter, the fact that we were created through a subatomic process has become more acceptable and we continue to understand and search for the origins of life and the Big bang. The discovery and the authentication of the Higgs Boson is a cause for celebration. In layman's terms we are on the verge of discovering the creation of the world through this particle. This discovery is said to be a huge contender for the Nobel Prize this year and has huge implications in scientific advancement. 

At present many scientists are working on a way to improve the analysis of the Higgs data that has been collected as the Large Hadron Collider is in the midst of a scheduled two-year shutdown for maintenance and will only comeback online in 2015. The machine is being refurbished and upgraded. Reasearch is not over at CERN and practical applications of the particle still need to be ascertained. Who knows what conclusions we derive from there...?