how much faith would it require to spend a couple of billion dollars, dig a hole a couple of miles under the ground, put a machine in it, and spend 20 years, just to look for a God Particle,
if you didn't have faith that the particle existed, you wouldn't waste all that time and money.
taughtbuffet,
I don't know if you implied that the only purpose of CERN is to detect the Higgs Boson.
This may help: CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN following international collaborations.
The detection of the Higgs Boson is the best known series of experiments, but by no means no the only ones.
