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Large Hadron Collider Rival Tevatron 'Has Found Higgs boson', say Rumours
Telegraph ^ | July 12, 2010 | Tom Chivers

Posted on 07/13/2010 5:25:48 AM PDT by lbryce

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The Higgs boson is the last of the particles posited by the standard model of particle physics still to be found. It is said to explain why other particles have mass, and its discovery would confirm the standard model. If its existence is ruled out altogether, then other, previously less popular theories will have to be examined.

Yeah, finding the long elusive 'Higgs boson" aka "the God particle" is a big deal but if you really want to get people's attention let's see it find Jimmy Hoffa.

1 posted on 07/13/2010 5:25:53 AM PDT by lbryce
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For those interested, check out the video on the linked page.


2 posted on 07/13/2010 5:28:21 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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For those interested, check out the video on the linked page.


3 posted on 07/13/2010 5:28:26 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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Maybe Whoraldo can find another empty safe!


4 posted on 07/13/2010 5:29:30 AM PDT by WVKayaker (“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.” -Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay)
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Fermi? Tavatron? CERN accelerator?

I’m not sure I understand a word in that entire article.


5 posted on 07/13/2010 5:30:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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If true this is the biggest triumph in physics in a long time. I will wait for confirmation.
6 posted on 07/13/2010 5:30:26 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
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While it has not been able to pinpoint the elusive Higgs

A more reliable but anonymous source says Higgs is hiding in Argentina......

7 posted on 07/13/2010 5:31:49 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
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Okay, Where did Higgs lose his Boson?................


8 posted on 07/13/2010 5:32:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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Translation:

Scientists spend huge amounts of money to find a small particle..............film at eleven..........


9 posted on 07/13/2010 5:33:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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That’s what Mrs. Higgs is desperately trying to find out. That’s her Boson, ya know?


10 posted on 07/13/2010 5:34:03 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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I bet Higgs will be glad to get it back...(8^D)


11 posted on 07/13/2010 5:34:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Fermi: Name of a particle physics lab outside Chicage.
Tevatron: Name of the circular particle accelerator that is the centerpiece of Fermia Lab. Named Tevatron because it was the first particle accelerator to generate over 1 trillion electron volts and was the most powerful accelerator until the LHC went online.
LHC: Large Hadron Collidor. Name of the largest particle accelerator in the world on the Swiss-French border. It has a 17 mile circumference.
Higgs Boson: The particle that gives matter mass; predicted by the Standard Theory of particle physics but not yet discovered in experiments.


12 posted on 07/13/2010 5:35:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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I, for one, hope they find Higgs.

Poor little thing must be scared to death after being lost all this time.


13 posted on 07/13/2010 5:36:43 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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Or maybe it can find out where zerobozo really came from.


14 posted on 07/13/2010 5:36:48 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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I'm glad I still got MY Bose on!..............

15 posted on 07/13/2010 5:37:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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Tevatron: .... because it was the first particle accelerator to generate over 1 trillion electron volts...

So we have a Tevabudget deficit?............

16 posted on 07/13/2010 5:39:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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Yep, hee hee.


17 posted on 07/13/2010 5:41:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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Get back to me when they find Obama’s birth certificate.


18 posted on 07/13/2010 5:41:59 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast.
God knows what He is doing.

Your tag line is reminiscent of two adages on this subject.
In German it's Der Mensch Tracht, Un Gott Macht.
Man conceives (inspires) and God Creates,
In Yiddish its, Der Mensch Tracht, Un Gott Lacht.
Man conceives, God Laughs.
19 posted on 07/13/2010 5:42:24 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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While it all sounds very trivial, this is part of the larger search for the Holy Grail - true fusion energy production.

All this silliness about electric cars and the like is just that silliness - because the energy it takes to produce the electricity it typically as dirty and troublesome as fossil fuel. Fusion energy would be a game changer. If there were a cheap, nonpolluting way to create electricity, a bunch of environmentalist wet dreams could come through.

Having said that, I have a friend that is a physicists and he assures me practically fusion energy production isn't likely to happen in our life time. But I guess they could always get lucky.

20 posted on 07/13/2010 5:43:04 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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