if everything goes as planned russia will soon become an associate member of the european organization for nuclear research that said it means lots of new opportunities for both sides but some obligations to how helpful congression brainpower be for the nuclear scientific community and what will the new level of cooperation mean for russian research we're asking the director general of cern mr rove the third for. the european nuclear research center or simply cern operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world its most celebrated project is the large hadron collider the giant facility built to tast fundamental physical theories it's a unique particle accelerator that unites scientists from nearly one hundred countries some seven hundred russians to take part in constructing the collider and many of them continue to work at cern. however mr hurd thank you for joining us on the show. welcome mr heard rush has started the procedure of joining has an associate member well what are the benefits well first of all for russian scientists of this procedure can you can you tell us please where the ben

the european organization for nuclear research has shown the existence of the higgs boson, named for the physicist who first showed it existed. the theory describes the web of particles, but forces, and interactions that make up the universe. the director of cern has been outlining this. there. it is clear this is the beginning of a new journey. >> we have discovered a new particle of higgs boson. we have to find out which kind of higgs boson this is. what are its properties? at least we now know that it can soon close part of the chapter of the model. we have now found the the last missing cornerstone of it, i think. >> to find out the significance of that discovery, i'm joined by our correspondent, jonathan amos. i am going to ask you what this is, this higgs boson, this so- called god particle. explain to me like i am a 10- year-old. " we have a beautiful explanation of the way the universe is put together -- >> we have a beautiful explanation of the way the universe is put together. it is called the standard model. have a hole in it that we have been trying to fill pier we've bee

. >> scientists made the announcement in an organization by the european organization for nuclear research. a group of about 6,000 researchers from europe, north america, asia, and other regions have been carrying out experiments since 2008. confirming the higgs would perform the physics known as this standard model. they have discovered the other 16 subatomic particles. they say the new characteristics would take more time. higgs boson is named after peter higgs. the boson is believed to give mass to everything from atoms to people. scientists believe that without the higgs there would be no gravity and no universe. the big bang created the universe. the theories of physics say particles raced around with any mass in the beginning. but scientists say at a certain point the higgs boson sailed space. the higgs gave other particles mass and restricted their movement. scientists believe that caused particles to stick together leading to the creation of stars, planets, and eventually humans. physicists believe the higgs boson is densely concentrated in space. they've been using something calle

biggest machine ever built by humans it's a seventeen mile long oval track run by the european organization for nuclear research also known as cern the purpose of the large hadron collider is to recreate the conditions that existed in the universe right after the big bang in order to find out what the most basic fundamentals are to everything more basic than our cells inside of us more basic than the elements on the periodic table more basic than atoms and more basic than subatomic stuff like new ones who owns quarks and the way scientists are trying to find this really really small most basic stuff in the universe is there smashing things together really fast it's kind of like trying to figure out the most basic stuff inside an i phone by taking you know two i phones and smashing them together really hard until they break into tiny little fundamental pieces. so that's what's happening at the large hadron collider not with i phones but scientists are smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light in seeing what tiny pieces are left over hoping that one of those pieces will be the most basic component

. >> work on the collider is conducted under the auspices of the european organization for nuclear researchknown as cern, but more than 80 countries are contributing money, technology, or scientists to the project. there have been israelis and palestinians, indians and pakistanis, iranians and americans working on the collider, and everyone will share in the scientific results. james gillies is cern's chief spokesman. >> do you ever worry or are concerned that you could turn this thing on and it won't work? >> i think we can be pretty confident that it's going to work, because everything you can possibly test along the way has been tested. >> all of this is being done to satisfy scientific curiosity? >> i would say it's all being done to satisfy human curiosity. >> but are there practical things that are likely to come out of it? >> i'm pretty sure there will be in the long term. i mean, the history of science shows us that the big advances in human technology come about through curiosity-driven research. >> can you give me an example of something that was created here for research purposes

but it was discovered at the european organization for nuclear research known as cern and that's in genevamething miles and miles under the earth between straddling the border between france and switzerland. people have compared it to like a race track where they do nothing but run these subatomic particles and smashing them at very high rates of speed and voila, they think they have this higgs boson particle which is pretty much the glue of the universe. now, you actually don't see it which leads me to the quote of the week, i think, you don't see it directly. you have to sift through the debris of trillions of subatomic particles and "the washington post" had the greatest post of the week. it's like defining the presence of an elusive snow leopard by studying crisscrossed footprints. there were webcasts all around the world and scientists rejoicing and even peter higgs who is now 83 years old was there to celebrate. it was quite an event, like a rock concert for scientists. i must point out, though, some are calling it a discovery of higgs-boson and others are saying it's a higgs-boson l