Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

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. They claimed that by combining two data sets, they had attained a confidence level just at the five-sigma point - about a one-in-3.5 million chance that the signal they see would appear if there were no Higgs particle.

With the ED relatively quiet, she'd made the trek to the fifth floor to say good morning to Kevin. Unfortunately for her, she'd walked in on a love scene that wasn't exactly PG-13.

So, all desire, when day hath fled, / And Twilight's wings the sky o'erspread, / Forth posts yon swain in loveful quest / To clasp his mistress to his breast.