Then once they found that, they found
that it raise more questions then it answered...
That's why at some level there's an inescapable paradox where, in the beginning of a universe of causality there inevitably comes a point where you have a "causeless effect".
Stephen hawking once said how in the beginning the universe would have existed as some "probability wave" (as per quantum mechanics), until it came into actuality. However, he is a staunch atheist and has claimed to have a resolution to the paradox that doesn't require "god".
Yea I may not have stated specifically that what they detected was a particle that behaved like a the Higgs Bosun should.
And yes, they haven't confirmed that that was the Higgs Bosun.
By any rate it is a step towards proving the Grand Unifying Theory.
Eventually when we can identify the fundamental particles and their corresponding waves with certainty the next step will be research into pre-big bang "existence".
That's if CERN doesn't start a Globe Killing chain reaction by accidentally creating a " strange quark". ( unlikely yes I know )
There are still allot of unanswered questions surrounding the Big Bang theory like the Flatness Problem. Recent data from NASA has shown the our entire universes spatial geometry is essentially isotropoc and homogoneous. Any pre-big bang theories would have to account for this anomaly.
There is also the Horizon Problem where radiation from the Big Bang seems to have spread out in a Uniform and isotropic rate. For radiation to be this uniform the photons would have had to be mixed around allot.
At light speed their simply hasn't been enough time to accomplish this. For photons to zip accross the Universe and back enough to become "thermalized".
And there is the magnetic mono-pole problem. Super String Theory and the Grand Unifying Theory both speculate that they exist, but we still hav'nt located one. We can isolate and identify mono-polar particles with either aa positive or negative charge but no monopoles.
IF yoy cut a magnet in half that had a North and South designation, you would just be left with two magnets with North and South designations.
Anyway, yes allot of unanswered questions.