@rosborne979,
rosborne979 wrote:Finding the Higgs Boson just helps to validate an already existing theory.
I hear you. And I don't understand the headlines about how this discovery "could revolutionize physics at its core" etc. If they really did find the Higgs boson, all they did was confirm that the standard model I've been taught in the 1990s was right all along. That's the opposite of revolutionary; it's pretty close to reactionary. Perhaps the "revolutionize X at its core" is a stock phrase in journalism. Journalists have special keyboards, and when they press ctrl-F8 on them, they automatically insert the "revolutionize at its core" template into the articles. Something like that.