finding the god particle

Cern's upcoming hunt for the God Particle is kinda old news for physicists, but since most people who read this aren't physicists, I thought I'd bring it up anyway. A Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built at Cern in Geneva. The LHC, once complete, will be the largest particle collider ever, and may be capable of generating the energies needed to produce a particle whose existence has only been theorized: the Higgs Boson, or God Particle. The reverential name is due to the fact that should this particle actually exist, it would tie together the current model of particle physics (the Standard Model), acting as the force carrier particle for the gravitational force.

Construction of the LHC is scheduled to be finished in 2007. Link to a non-physicist-friendly BBC article on the subject; link to the Cern homepage.