THE practical benefits of the "God particle" are difficult for physicists to explain because they are potentially so far reaching.
The global scientific community is abuzz about the 30-year search for the Higgs boson or the God particle, a theoretical particle that is key to the scientific understanding of all matter.
But it is difficult to envisage the practical applications of the search being undertaken using the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, 100 metres underground near Geneva.
Peter Jenni, a senior physicist at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research or CERN, said there were many examples of how physics had shaped our daily life.
"You probably have an iPhone or a smart phone," Dr Jenni told reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday.
"Without some basic physics, centuries ago ... we wouldn't have this.
"What we hope is to fix now the understanding of the standard model of physics which is the basis of many applications, many things which we actually see in all day life."
The results of the research being done near Geneva could help scientists probe other mysteries of the universe such as the nature of dark matter.
"Of course you never could predict what happens later on," Dr Jenni said.
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