The atheist particle

Here's something to inspire every late developer: Peter Higgs didn't win a prize for physics until he was 52. Mind you, by then he'd come up with an idea that changed the Universe - or at least how we look at it. He set out to explain not just why we are here, but why everything is here. The dominant theory is that it all began about 14 billion years ago with the Big Bang. Almost immediately some of the energy released began to condense into fundamental particles. The process of creating the stuff around us - matter - was under way.