I have been learning about particle physics in my "spare" time so it was exciting to read CERN turned on their Large Hadron Collider and tried the first experiment.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080910-collider-success_2.html Large Hadron Collider "Actually Worked"
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text/1 The God Particle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/11/scicern311.xml Large Hadron Collider: Your questions answered
