Posted on 03/13/2009 8:04:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) – Physicists have come closer to finding the elusive "God Particle," which they hope could one day explain why particles have mass, the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday.
Researchers at the Fermilab have managed to shrink the territory where the elusive Higgs Boson particle is expected to be found -- a discovery placing the American research institute ahead of its European rival in the race to discover one of the biggest prizes in physics.
Physicists have long puzzled over how particles acquire mass.
In 1964, a British physicist, Peter Higgs, came up with this idea: there must exist a background field that would act rather like treacle.
Particles passing through it would acquire mass by being dragged through a mediator, which theoreticians dubbed the Higgs Boson.
The standard quip about the Higgs is that it is the "God Particle" -- it is everywhere but remains frustratingly elusive.
Confirming the Higgs would fill a huge gap in the so-called Standard Model, the theory that summarizes our present knowledge of particles. Over the years, scientists have whittled down the ranges of mass that the Higgs is likely to have.
Physicists were hopeful that the particle could be found with Europe's Big Bang atom-smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.
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People who look to telescopes, or microscopes, to find God are missing the point imho.
Over the years, scientists have whittled down the ranges of mass that the Higgs is likely to have.They're looking for the mass of mass.
Well, it’s real science, and very interesting. Too bad they have to throw in this “God particle” nonsense, which just diverts attention from what is actually going on here.
Physicists get closer to finding the ‘God Particle’
I laugh at these people. God is all around you.
And when they find it...something else will be there that they haven’t found yet.
Some neat gadgets too..
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How does the Higgs boson affect string theory?
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-does-the-higgs-boson&topicID=13
And when they find it...something else will be there that they haven’t found yet.
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yup.
stringing us all along
Except the White House.
true.
Jesus wasn't beyond using observations of nature to explain the nature of God.
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Spend all their lives saying there is no God, don’t want to live under His rules, and have the coconuts to call a particle the ‘god’ particle.
So when they study all that is around us they are studying God, right?
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It’s a figure of speech, for goodness’ sake!
Particles have mass because they are made out of stuff.
Next question.
Why do I have the feeling that these people are searching for the God particle so that they can explain away God.Yet the more they discover about science, the more they understand that there is a creator and a grand design.
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