It has been a fairly long day. Lyn and I got home fairly late and I flicked on the news, hoping to relax before bed, when I saw this remarkable news. The higgs has been discovered – it is real! I’m not a physicist, and I can’t begin to understand the implications of this finding; I only know that this is a momentous day upon which history has been written (if i is confirmed, of course), and I would be a lax blogger indeed if I didn’t mark this event. Mind you, exploring what this means will have to wait until the morning for me – bed must sometimes take precedence over fundamental physics.