These are exciting days for people who like particles.

First there was the whol ‘neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light’ thing, which instantly made me think of building my own Millenium Falcon from part taken from a pair of fifteen year old Ford Escorts, immediately followed by thinking of ways to create a time machine using a french press and a toaster oven.

Now, we the Large Hardon Collider seems to finally be ready to experimentally confirm the presence of the Higgs Field, a field which theoretically permeates all space and that gives particles mass.