We've just announced and made
presentations about the discovery of a new particle
and this is a boson, like
potentially the Higgs boson.
This particle is about 130 times the mass of the proton, so it's the heaviest bosonic particle that's ever been found,
and it's very profound we are very excited about this.
We've seen the evidence of a particle that decays very strongly in a couple of different ways
and it has to be a boson, we know that. 
We don't know if it's the Higgs boson.
It has many of the properties you'd expect, but it's very early.
We just, we know it's there, we have an inkling of its properties and now we need more data to understand it.
For me personally what's exciting about this is not that we've a new trophy. We found a particle that was predicted.
We found the top quark 15 years ago. I was involved in that, that was exciting.
The top quark was known to exist, it had to exist. The trick was that it was so heavy.
No one could find it, took a lot of energy.
It is still the heaviest particle we've ever found.
This one is the second heaviest. Okay?
So it's not so much which one's heaviest, and so forth, there's a different significance to different particles.
The top quark is sort of a copy of our matter-world.
The Higgs, if this is the Higgs, if this is a boson that does what the Higgs does
then this is something that actually has an impact on, 
really the whole fabric of space-time
and we're reaching in to a depth of
this fabric that humanity has never done before.
This is super profound, it's just,
for me personally, it's very very moving.
Okay, so we've been running for several
years,
and in running our experiment in the accelerator, we have proton beams crossing and they collide.
Protons collide and we look for what's there and we look for things that are interesting.
But that happens 16 million times a second
and we do that 24 hours a day, and when you've done that for two or three years, now we're up to
500 trillion collisions that have been scanned. 
Of those we've kept two, three, four, five billions
something like this, I don't remember the exact number, some billion, number of billion of events have been kept
like three-dimensional photographs. And we look through those and we try to find this signal.
And to give you an idea of how difficult it is, 
if for every time the protons collided
we represented those kinds of collisions by one grain of sand, then the 500 trillion collisions
that have occurred are enough sand to fill 
an olympic size swimming pool.
And we're looking for enough sand to cover the tip of your finger.  And we think we found it.
What do we do next? Are we done? 
No, we're certainly not done, because like I said
we have just got a sense that this particle's there, we have the barest information about its properties,
they're consistent with what we'd expect for a Standard Model Higgs boson, but there are some things that are
a little bit interesting, let's say, and so we see that if we can continue running this year,
and we just learned that the run will be extended three months,
we should have enough data, maybe twice or three times the data that we have now,
and that will be enough for us to really start to see what this thing is,
and if it's very much like the Standard Model Higgs that's very good, so then we start to think:
"Yes, this is probably a Higgs-like boson" and it'd be very interesting.
If we can already see that it's NOT like a Standard Model Higgs boson, then this is revolutionary.
This means we're on to something that will point the way to a new dimension of particles,
possibly supersymmetry or really, as an
alternative, new dimensions of space-time?
We don't know. It could be the portal to
the next deepest layer in our quest to understand the universe.
