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Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles
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Posted on 06/15/2010 9:41:08 PM PDT by dila813

"Recent results from the Dzero experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator suggest that those looking for a single Higgs boson particle should be looking for five particles, and the data gathered may point to new laws beyond the Standard Model. 'The DZero results showed much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter — beyond what could be explained by the Standard Model. Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons. They say the data point to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges. Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.'"


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackholes; fermi; higgsboson; kludge; peterhiggs; standardmodel; tevatron; thereisnohiggs
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So, the standard model is coming undone.

I wish Climate Science was able to entertain the idea that their theory is wrong as easily as Physicists are willing to.

This is how science is supposed to work.

This is just data that hints that they may be wrong, yet they are willing to consider it.

In Climate Science, the observation must not be adequate or you are a denier.

1 posted on 06/15/2010 9:41:08 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

It’s about time for another major Physics breakthrough.


2 posted on 06/15/2010 9:45:44 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: dila813
I wish Climate Science was able to entertain the idea that their theory is wrong as easily as Physicists are willing to.

Oh they are. You just don't hear about the ones who do.

3 posted on 06/15/2010 9:46:50 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: eclecticEel

It is good science, just no one knows how we are going to use this information.

I hope that we surprise ourselves with an application for this.


4 posted on 06/15/2010 9:46:53 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

Horse sh**.


5 posted on 06/15/2010 9:47:05 PM PDT by allmost
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To: dila813

Now there’s a clever idea. Pack the leaking casing with anti-bosons!


6 posted on 06/15/2010 9:47:43 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: ElkGroveDan

I thought the get bought up on charges in the World Criminal Court if they did that.


7 posted on 06/15/2010 9:47:50 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

It’s not good science.


8 posted on 06/15/2010 9:47:56 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Which part, that Physicists are willing to entertain alternative theories or that there are multiple Higgs Particles?


9 posted on 06/15/2010 9:49:41 PM PDT by dila813
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To: allmost

Based on what?

That there isn’t any application for it? I would agree with you on that.

Good Science just means you have a theory and you have an experiment that can adequately probe and test it.


10 posted on 06/15/2010 9:51:24 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

Explain to me your “multiple Higgs Particles” please.


11 posted on 06/15/2010 9:51:45 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Go to the link


12 posted on 06/15/2010 9:52:05 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

You have no, as in zero, objectivity. Must suck.


13 posted on 06/15/2010 9:53:21 PM PDT by allmost
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To: dila813

You would think that these kinds of breakthroughs in supersymmetry would come from CERN now, and not Fermilabs.


14 posted on 06/15/2010 9:56:00 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Wow you are TROLLING hard.


15 posted on 06/15/2010 9:59:17 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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Multiple Higgs. Do you even know what you refer to?
16 posted on 06/15/2010 10:02:10 PM PDT by allmost
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To: dila813

Ok...

Where is the regular FR, and what did you do with them?


17 posted on 06/15/2010 10:02:50 PM PDT by politicaljules
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To: allmost

yes, absolutely none, now go away


18 posted on 06/15/2010 10:02:53 PM PDT by dila813
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To: allmost

Yep, explain why you’re acting like a child about it first.


19 posted on 06/15/2010 10:02:56 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: OldDeckHand

I guess a few billion dollars doesn’t always buy you the best science.


20 posted on 06/15/2010 10:03:44 PM PDT by dila813
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