ELVIS and the "God Particle", or "Higgs Boson"

The “Higgs Boson” walks into a church.  The priest says, “We don’t allow Higgs Bosons in here.”  The Higgs Boson responds, “But without me how can you have mass?”

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The universal fundamental composition of stuff has allegedly been found.  Hooray... I guess.

On July 4th, 2012, some scientists announced the discovery of the "Higgs Boson" which is also affectionately known as the "God Particle".  For the average person, however, this brilliant and intellectually intriguing news may be better received by the public masses by asserting that we are a step closer to determining if Elvis Presley (aka "Elvis") and Michael Jackson (aka "Michael") are located in nearby parallel universes (with their same masses).  J

For the scientifically-inclined, the "Higgs Boson" or "God Particle" is now confirmed by the scientific community to be an elementary mass particle in the so-called Standard Model of physics.  It has been an enormously expensive endeavor over several years of scientific research.

This particle (H⁰) is named after physicist Peter Higgs who, along with 5 others, proposed the scientific mechanism that suggested the existence of such a particle in 1964.

According to these scientists, among other things this particle allows multiple identical particles to exist in the same place in the same quantum state; i.e. and e.g., parallel universes, etc.

[see, CERN Experiments Observe Particle Consistent With Long-Sought Higgs Boson", CERN press release (July 4, 2012), http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases2012/PR17.; Lucas Taylor, "Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV," http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/observation-new-particle-mass-125-gev, CMS Public Website.  CERN (July 4, 2012); Peter Higgs, "Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons," Physical Review Letters 13 (16): 508-509 (1964)]