The God Particle Has Been Found?

When I was in my elementary school, I was taught that the atom is the smallest particle and is indivisible. But even during at that time that my teacher was uttering it, it was well established that there are more smaller particles inside the atom. One fundamental question relating to these smaller particles was - Why do they have different masses?

Anyone who has interest in physics at all at one point or another have encountered the idea of the Higgs boson aka the 'God Particle'.

In 1964, Peter Higgs, theorized a solution on the problem on why particles have mass. He proposed that  particles move through a field (the Higgs field very much like the idea of ether), and as they move through it they interact with Higgs Boson which is the smallest bit of the Higgs field. This interaction depending how smooth it moves though the field would give a particle its mass. But since then  its been very difficult to find it evidence of it and its discovery has been one of the most awaited in the history of physics.

Well today is historic as scientists at CERN announced that they are 99.999% sure  that 'God Particle' has been found.

So why should we care about its discovery?

Not really. To us (non geeks) we don't necessarily need to care. Its just good to know that current Standard Model of physics we have  is on the right track. Its means that  our geeks are correct so far on how we should perceive the physical world.  And most of all,  it's discovery is important because it means that our geeks need not to revise the whole physics as we(or they) know it. That our world  is now more simplier than it was without it. Some people might even say that we are now one step closer to knowing how God created the universe.