What are the implications of CERN's discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle?

4 July 2012 Last updated at 07:35 GMT

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455

“Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass. Both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their data worthy of a ‘discovery’. More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however. (...)

The CMS team claimed they had seen a “bump” in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) – about 133 times heavier than the protons that lie at the heart of every atom. (...)

A confirmation that this is the Higgs boson would be one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the century; the hunt for the Higgs has been compared by some physicists to the Apollo programme that reached the Moon in the 1960s.”

Any thoughts?

Should we all exclaim: WOW ?
Or: Well…