This discovery underlies inflationary theory and dark energy, two key components of the current standard model of the universe. (discovermagazine.com)
But if the LHC works exactly the way many scientists hope, the results could be booooooring: finding the Higgs boson — the only particle that's predicted by the current standard model of particle physics but not found — and perhaps a few more expected phenomena along the way. (discovermagazine.com)