One of the primary design goals of the Large Hadron Collider ("LHC") at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland--one of the most complicated scientific instruments ever built--was to test the existence of the Higgs boson and measure its properties, which would allow physicists to confirm this cornerstone of modern theory.Because of its role in a fundamental property of elementary particles, the Higgs boson has been referred to as the "God particle" in popular culture, although virtually all scientists regard this as a hyperbole.. 
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