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Some of you may recall my lengthy blog about the imminent discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson, a subatomic particle that will hopefully be created by the French and Swiss Large Hadron Collider or as I like to call it: the ‘end-of-the-world‘ machine.

After a bit of Googling I realise the Higgs Boson has been with us for ages, right under our noses. Why haven’t I found it sooner? Here it is:

Courtesy of the very clever Particle Zoo

Now you too can have your very own hugable electron, lepton or theoretical to snuggle up to on a cold winter’s night.

On a serious note, you can join in counting down to the ever-delayed ‘switch-on’ by clicking here.

As I type, there’s only eight days to go until the world ends, er, I mean until switch-on!