‘No sign of God, can’t have mass’ — CERN: “The legendary particle that physicists thought explained why matter has mass probably does not exist. So say researchers who have spent a year analysing data from the LEP accelerator at the CERN nuclear physics lab near Geneva.

The elusive Higgs boson is so central to the standard model – the theory on which physicists base their whole understanding of matter – that it has been dubbed the ‘God particle’. If there is no Higgs, they will be left totally unable to explain mass.” New Scientist