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Physicists get closer to finding the 'God Particle'
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 3/13/09 | AFP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Testing; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: closer; finding; godparticle; higgsboson; particlephysics; physicists; standardmodel; stringtheory; tevatron
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To: odin2008

The question will still remain, “Where does the God particle come from?”


21 posted on 03/13/2009 8:47:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

From is a preposition.

God is beyond definition. I pray for the mercy of his Son, Jeus, the Son of the Living God.

Before you I proclaim that I believe that Jesus is the Son of the living God, that whosever shall beliveth in me shall not perish, but have bever lefting life.


22 posted on 03/13/2009 8:53:11 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those men who in wickedness hold back the truth of God (from mankind), seeing that what may be known about God is manifest to them. For God has manifested it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen—His everlasting power also, and divinity—being understood through the things that are made. And so they are without excuse, seeing that, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless minds have been darkened.


23 posted on 03/13/2009 8:57:24 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: Hilltop

Right back at you, slick. /seinfeld :)


24 posted on 03/13/2009 9:01:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ChinaThreat

Or, maybe they are doing exactly the type of stuff God wants us to do. Like use the brains He gave us.


25 posted on 03/13/2009 9:01:36 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Hilltop; Secret Agent Man

I’ve been wanting to left some bevers, too!


26 posted on 03/13/2009 9:03:05 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Cicero
> 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.

Worse, it misdirects the reader into thinking that Physics is the search for God. It's not that at all.

Physics is the study of God's Creation, a worthy endeavor to model and explain the Universe and its Laws, in terms that we mere mortals can comprehend and use to the enlightenment of mankind.

At least, that's why -I- undertook the study of Physics in college.

Personally, I'd find it exceeding odd (and delightful) if God turned out to be a subatomic particle. But I doubt it, since presumably the Higgs does not predate the Big Bang, that indescribably awesome Original Act of God.

The above is to be understood as my personal beliefs; YMMV.

27 posted on 03/13/2009 9:03:46 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: TASMANIANRED
" And when they find it...something else will be there that they haven’t found yet. "

Maybe they will find this ( kinda like in the movie MEN IN BLACK at the end of the movie ) ......


28 posted on 03/13/2009 9:05:58 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: NormsRevenge

COOL! But, what about the SATAN particle? Usually, reality is symmetrical so there should be an offsetting particle to the GOD particle.


29 posted on 03/13/2009 9:09:23 PM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: NormsRevenge

Read the description of the scientific theory. It makes no sense to the mind of man, it seems circular, a riddle. The deeper the scientists go the more mystical they become, all the while proclaiming themselves atheists.


30 posted on 03/13/2009 9:09:56 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Larry Lucido
> I’ve been wanting to left some bevers, too!

Better hurry up. All the bevers are moving to the right next week...

31 posted on 03/13/2009 9:11:17 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Williams
> The deeper the scientists go the more mystical they become, all the while proclaiming themselves atheists.

Very few scientists I know proclaim themselves atheists. Most believe in God in some form, and many consider their dedication to their life's profession to be a celebration of their belief in the majesty of God's Creation.

They may not say it that way in print, but they often talk like that when they know the listener understands that there is no self-contradiction in a scientist who believes in God.

32 posted on 03/13/2009 9:15:11 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: BIGLOOK
Isn't this an inquiry into Quarks and Gluons?

Charming.

That's one way to Spin it.

33 posted on 03/13/2009 9:16:28 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

No matter how many times I see it, that photo makes my insides curdle in terror. It’s like standing on he rim of the Grand Canyon, only a trillion times more awe-inspiring.


34 posted on 03/13/2009 9:18:59 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: TASMANIANRED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=related


35 posted on 03/13/2009 9:19:47 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: dayglored

I suppose I was referring to scientists who view the universe in a purely mechanistic way driven ony by chance and without purpose. Certainly that is promoted as the rational scientific approach in contrast to religious fantasizing. I mean promoted in popular culture and by some scientists as well.


36 posted on 03/13/2009 9:20:13 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: B-Chan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=related


37 posted on 03/13/2009 9:21:15 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: dayglored
Very few scientists I know proclaim themselves atheists. Most believe in God in some form, and many consider their dedication to their life's profession to be a celebration of their belief in the majesty of God's Creation.

They may not say it that way in print, but they often talk like that when they know the listener understands that there is no self-contradiction in a scientist who believes in God.

According to the article, part of the reason they call it the God particle is that they see it everywhere. Philosophically, I'm find that an odd thing to disagree with.

38 posted on 03/13/2009 9:21:36 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: B-Chan
In that video animation of our universe.... at the outer edge of the “ Known Universe “ .... it kind of that's on the shape of DNA .... it's the kind of thing that makes you go .. Hmmmm ???? DNA particle of what ?? God maybe ?
39 posted on 03/13/2009 9:23:30 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Physicists get closer to finding the 'God Particle'...Researchers at the Fermilab have managed to shrink the territory where the elusive Higgs Boson particle is expected to be found

In related news, a team of Cryptozoologists claim they have narrowed the field in their search for Godzilla since, apparently, the beast doesn't seem to be hiding in any of the team members garages...

40 posted on 03/13/2009 9:27:06 PM PDT by csense
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