Originally Posted by
Nameless
To find the Higgs Bosom (the famous ONE particle) is a long shot but it is possible, Stephen Hawking himself did bet that they wouldn't find it. Personally, I think that it is just a matter of time before that mystery is solved, might take a couple more years though. Even if the Collider wouldn't discover the Higgs Bosom, it wouldn't mean that it failed in his quest as there were many objectives, including calculating a few things and collecting informations and models about when 2 atoms collide, the Higgs Bosom would be of course the Holy Grail of their quest but it is not a necessary objective to achieve to declare the mission successful.