. . . absolutely no work got done. Instead, everyone flooded the main auditorium early in the morning. It was full by 11:30 a.m. There were people sitting in the aisles. No one could connect to the internet because the wireless routers were flooded. Security prevented anyone else from entering after noon if they hadn't already found a seat.
The reason for the fuss was at 2:00 p.m., when the spokespeople for ATLAS and CMS (in that order) presented the status of their Higgs boson searches with the jaw-dropping amount of data they each collected this year. Details can be found here: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
Details can probably also be found on innumerable news and science websites. But I would suggest starting with what CERN had to say on the matter. After all, since scientists at CERN are studying the particle, shouldn't they know best what they've found out?
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