Introducing Higgs Bosun… Now what?

Just one week ago, scientists said they were achingly close to confirming that last July’s discovery at the Large Hadron Collider was in fact the Higgs boson, and just had to eliminate one more possibility.

They apparently did, because the AP reports that CERN today announced that “it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is.” As the BBC explains, scientists still need to determine if the subatomic particle is the simplest kind of Higgs or a more “exotic” form.

The problem is that the particle they discovered behaves the EXACT way they predicted it would.  They were hoping on discovery of different phenomenon in the presence of the particle, but alas, no.  It appears to behave Identical to  supersymmetric theories that had previously predicted it.  So now what?

The LHC is a 17 mile  long tube that lays below the French/Swiss border.  It’s main purpose was to discover the “God particle”, now they have, now what?  Alighty boys, you’ve earned yourself a beer!  NOW WHAT?!?