Seems like a good place to drop this in:

A Higgs Boson Particle walks into a bar and starts preaching. The Bartender asks "What're you doing?!". The Higgs Boson replies "I'm giving Mass"

I was watching the entire video seminar from press release at CERN directly. This made me really proud to be a physics student.

This discovery is on the same level like Einstein's General/Special theory of relativity or E=mc^2. Perhaps even the scientific find of the century. Now with a bit more research we will see how this fits into the standard model and interacts with other bosons and fermions. Maybe we will even get a clue if this new particle relates to dark matter. Good times.

Lay man's terms please. Can anyone sum this up because all I got from that is it cost $10 billion taxpayer dollars for a particle nobody should care about.

There are about a dozen theories on the fundamental laws of physics. Some require a particle just like the one just found, some do not. Those in the wrong camp need to find another job, an excuse or a few good drinks now.

A particle that creates a field that creates a particle..

(The theory is way more complex to solve this riddle. I did understand about the first three minutes in a discussion with theoretical physicists and "normal" physicists of which I am one).

People have been tweeting about this for a couple weeks, they kept citing 5 sigma and how close they were.

Amazing, the next generation of physics is begins now.

Interesting.

Now slightly off topic, how do you feel about games nowadays? Not much excitement at all, right?

I don't tend to have fleeting interests, if that's what you're getting at. I'm still very much interested in science, as I said. I still read books and lots of papers (heck, I'm in the research game myself). I just don't have the urgency to post about it on forums or bore my friends with it down the pub anymore. To be honest, I feel that attitude was kind of pretentious now. I can, however, talk about my own work for hours on end.

As for games. I now restore and sell retro games/consoles as a profitable hobby, I've been doing that for about a year. I also occasionally play strategy/football management games in my free time. I never completely stopped, console gaming just took a big hit.

No, I wasn't getting at that. From what I've learned you aren't a fleeting interest guy. I was just curious.

I have to ask you, what was your specific field again? I forgot...

I also got the impression that you stopped gaming almost completely. Not that you're alone in that here on VGC. I think we have many regular members who don't play games at all, or at least they never discuss them.

Interaction between humans and virtual objects. I think I've sent you a few messages about it in the past. I'll PM you a link to a video explaining my work if you want?

I've not completely stopped gaming, I still kick ass on Football Manager.