Are you there God particle? It’s me, Fermilab.

By further isolating where the Higgs boson isn’t, scientists are finally closing in on the discovery of the so-called God particle…or proving that it doesn’t exist at all.

Its mass — in the units preferred by physicists — is not in the range between 158 billion and 175 billion electron volts, according to a talk by Ben Kilminster of Fermilab at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris.

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