There is something wrong with the leading theoretical framework for how the world works. If its equations are correct, neither the Earth nor anything else in the universe could exist. And yet the Standard Model of physics is the best explanation we have, according to scientists at particle physics institute CERN.
Fourteen years ago, physicists at CERN popped champagne corks over breakfast, thrilled to have confirmed the existence of the Higgs Boson, measurable evidence of a previously theoretical field that permeates the universe and gives mass to fundamental particles.