Abstract

ABSTRACT: As we have written and read in every newspaper, 2012 was the year of the discovery of the “God particle”, but what has often failed to add is that the exceptional experiment is likely to raise more questions than it has answered. The ideas that have been put forward so far on dark matter, dark energy, asymmetry between matter and antimatter, and additional space-time dimensions, still have not been confirmed in experiments at CERN. Indeed, the fact that the Higgs boson seems to be exactly as described by the English scientist in 1964 has partly disappointed the scientists because is likely to crystallize a type of description of the universe to the detriment of hypotheses more fit to eventually illuminate the vast part of the cosmos that there is still unknown. And therein lies the question. We can’t forget that the ordinary matter made up only 5 percent of the universe: “The rest is a mystery”. In addition to illustrating the history and significance of this discovery and emphasize the social impacts of technologies created at CERN, the dossier also explores the scientific and philosophical sense of this mystery.