TODAY at CERN in Switzerland, what is said to be the largest machine ever built, the Large Hadron Collider, will be switched on and – presuming the moment doesn't spark the end of the world as some doom-mongers have forecast it might – the search will begin for a particle that may resolve one of the unsolved questions about the universe: what gives it mass.The still-hypothetical particle is known as the Higgs boson.
taken from the Scotsman 10/09/08
