CERN, The God Particle, and The Hadron Collider

Here is a good article explaining a bit about "the God particle" that we discussed in class today. Some of you had questions as to what it was, and Wired magazine (a very good technology and science source) explains it pretty well here, in "The God Particle and the Grid." And here is a bit more on the particle itself as "the only reasonable explanation we have for the origin of mass," as explained in "Racing to the 'God Particle'", another article from the same magazine. Also, here is CERN's explanation of their Hadron Collider.

Here are some pictures of the Hadron Collider: