If the Higgs boson is the "God Particle," then some particle physicists just turned polytheistic. To explain a recent experiment, they wonder if five Higgs bosons give our universe mass instead of one. Last month, we discussed a curious experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab near Chicago. Colliding protons and antiprotons, the Tevratron's DZero group found more matter than antimatter. This agrees well with common sense--if the Big Bang had really churned out equal amounts of matter and antimatter, the particles would have annihilated each other, and we wouldn't be here. Unfortunately, the physics for this matter favoritism doesn't make sense. For one, it requires some fudging to fit the Standard Model, the organizing theory for particle physics. This might seem sad since we were so close to finishing the Standard Model up, with the Higgs filling the last cage in physicists' particle zoo:
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