The God particle's Indian connection

After decades of experiments and billions in investments, scientists at the famous CERN Research Centre in Geneva claim to have finally found the elusive Higgs Boson or the "God particle", believed to be the crucial building block that led to the formation of the universe. CNBC-TV18’s Ashwin Raghunath delved deeper into the story to find out the details.

The Higgs Boson particle has been posited as being crucial to our understanding of how the universe was formed. According to the theory, without the Higgs particle, the universe would have remained in a soup-like state and not clumped to form stars, planets or even life. And now, the European organisation for nuclear research, or CERN, say they have discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. Interestingly, there is an intrinsic Indian connection to what is happening at Cern - scientist Satyendra Nath Bose. It is after Bose that the sub-atomic particle Boson was named to begin with. Dr. Meenakshi Narain, who has been involved with the research at Cern, explains the significance of this discovery to CNBC-TV18. “We do not know conclusively if it is Higgs Boson, but it is one of the biggest mysteries of particle physics. Entire existence relies on this theory that particles have mass,” she said. But this discovery in turn opens a pandora's box of other intriguing questions. For starters, is this particle a variant of the Boson or an entirely different particle? These questions will undoubtedly keep the scientists experimenting further.