Higgs Boson of the day

So have we discovered the elusive "God Particle" or not?

The short answer is yes. The long answer is kinda. CERN Director General Rolf Heuer put it this way: "As a layman, I think we have it", which is pretty much as unequivocal as CERN gets.

What has been discovered is something that is 99.9% likely to be a new particle (the first such discovery in decades), which has properties that are consistent with the Higgs. However given the amount of data that is still to be collected, such as whether the spin value of the particle is 0, which is a fundamental property of the theoretical particle.

In addition, if this turns out to be a Higgs, it doesn't mean it's the Higgs that they've been looking for. 

This is definitely the beginning of the story rather than the end.

[io9]