Robert Orr, physicist and founder of the University of Toronto team that has been searching for the Higgs boson particle in the Large Hadron Collider, explained the discovery they observed last week in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

"This understanding of reality is an immensely important part of our culture. It's our scientific view of the world."

Read the full Q&A, which features discussion on its nickname "the God particle," what it means for physics and what happens next, at The Globe.