The renowned British physicist Peter Higgs again expressed his strong belief that the particle named the "Higgs boson”, after himself, will soon be proved to exist, as the last piece of the ATLAS detector, the largest general-purpose particle detector in the world, was put in its place, ending almost five years of work to build the device.
The 46 meters long and 25 meters high and long ATLAS detector is able to detect and trace the smallest particles produced in the CERN accelerator, also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The particles of which Higgs is talking about are also dubbed “God particle” due to the fact that they are the proof of the existence of a force that gives mass to the universe and is the origin of life.
"I shall open a bottle of something," should the particle exist, the 79-year-old professor said to AFP. "It will be champagne -- whisky takes a little more time to drink," Higgs added.
The renowned physicist claimed the existence of the particle back in 1964, only by using scientific calculations, but the theory was rejected by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Higgs said that he is certain that the particle would be discovered soon, as nowadays, scientists widely agree that there is a invisible field.
The new LHC aims to discover and unlock many secrets of the universe by simulating the conditions at the time of the primeval inferno, as it smashes particles at a near light speed.
The experiments at the new European center, which was built on the Swiss- French border, are expected to begin later this year and they will look for signs of the God particle.