Posted on 03/14/2013 5:32:41 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
GENEVA (AP) - Physicists said Thursday they are now confident they have discovered a crucial subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson - a major discovery that will go a long ways toward helping them explain why the universe is the way it is.
They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle."
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If the Higgs boson is, as we’ve been told, THE definitive or “GOD” particle, then how is it that it only helps them understand and doesn’t completely answer the question of how the universe came to be. Is there another particle yet to be found which will supersede the “ultimate” one?
I would think the new Pope could explain why we have Mass. ;)
Oh... never mind. My dyslexic brain thought it said “Big Bosoms”...
A bunch of “scientist” scouring over data to *find* what no one can see? And they FOUND it??? SHAZAM!!!
This morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I’ll never know.
Your comment makes more sense to me than the article.
"They're still trying to get the box open" said Professor Schroedinger...
oh that explains a lot(sarcasm). Also depends on what the definition of is is.
This bs article doesn't say anything . these morons know nothing.
bingo!
Forget the “god” particle nonsense, it’s just sensationalism. This is just another particle, it isn’t the ultimate anything.
Must be time to submit the multi-billion dollar budget for their collided. “we think we found it, if you give us $5 billion more, we will KNOW we found it”
The Higgs is no more a God particle than any other particle. The name was a marketing gimmick for a book title and the press has run with it ever since.
This 24 hours has been very, very interesting. First a Pope from the Americas now finding the “God particle”....in Europe......
It was with all of my missing left socks.
Also, Higgs actually objects to people calling it the “God particle”
Who would have guessed? The Higgs-Boson was in the last place they looked.
Heisenberg also says “Then where is it?”........."and how fast was it going at the time?"........
"But the two experiments, CMS and ATLAS, hadn't collected enough data to say the particle was, for sure, the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered piece of the puzzle predicted by the Standard Model, the reigning theory of particle physics.
http://news.yahoo.com/confirmed-newfound-particle-higgs-130317830.html
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In other words, why does matter have inertia, and generates gravity.
If it doesn’t have mass then it doesn’t matter........
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