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BICEP2 All Over Again? Researchers Place Higgs Boson Discovery in Doubt
universetoday.com ^ | on November 20, 2014 | Tim Reyes

Posted on 11/20/2014 2:26:16 PM PST by BenLurkin

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe, faster is better. Faster means more powerful particle collisions and looking deeper into the makeup of matter. However, other researchers are proclaiming not so fast. LHC may not have discovered the Higgs Boson, the boson that imparts mass to everything, the god particle as some have called it. While the Higgs Boson discovery in 2012 culminated with the awarding in December 2013 of the Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs and François Englert, a team of researchers has raised these doubts about the Higgs Boson in their paper published in the journal Physical Review D.

The discourse is similar to what unfolded in the last year with the detection of light from the beginning of time that signified the Inflation epoch of the Universe. Researchers looking into the depths of the Universe and the inner depths of subatomic particles are searching for signals at the edge of detectability, just above the noise level and in proximity to the signals from other sources. For the BICEP2 telescope observations (previous U.T. articles), its pretty much back to the drawing board but the Higgs Boson (previous U.T. articles) doubts are definitely challenging but needing more solid evidence. In human affairs, if the Higgs Boson was not detected by the LHC, what does one do with an awarded Nobel Prize?

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: franoisenglert; higgsboson; peterhiggs; stringtheory
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 2:26:16 PM PST by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 11/20/2014 2:32:11 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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what does one do with an awarded Nobel Prize

Ask the great peacemaker Obama.
3 posted on 11/20/2014 2:32:26 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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what does one do with an awarded Nobel Prize

The Nobel committee seems to be awarding a lot of unwarranted prizes lately...
4 posted on 11/20/2014 2:33:31 PM PST by chrisser (When do we get to tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns and religion?)
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To: BenLurkin

The Nobel committee is use to giving out awards prematurely, or for no good reason ...


5 posted on 11/20/2014 2:34:36 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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This is settled science, these are just Higgs Boson deniers....


6 posted on 11/20/2014 2:37:26 PM PST by TheDon (The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
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To: chrisser

Arafat, Carter, 0bama .....


7 posted on 11/20/2014 2:40:42 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: chrisser

Arafat, Carter, 0bama, Gore .....


8 posted on 11/20/2014 2:40:57 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: BenLurkin
The God particle is dead.
9 posted on 11/20/2014 2:46:53 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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BICEP2...
10 posted on 11/20/2014 2:59:37 PM PST by EEGator
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At least Arafat had the common decency to die.

Did I say that out loud?

/johnny

11 posted on 11/20/2014 3:01:47 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Nerd fight!


12 posted on 11/20/2014 6:44:25 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: BenLurkin; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.


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13 posted on 11/23/2014 2:31:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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What are they going to say next? That Barry Obola didn’t really deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?

(Seriously, the world is now run by the Children of Men.)


14 posted on 11/23/2014 2:35:11 PM PST by samtheman
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