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Particle physics. PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
6 posted on
06/09/2003 6:47:04 AM PDT by
PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Sounds like it'll be a few years before we get a result. Unless the French decide to surrender CERN.
To: PatrickHenry
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14 posted on
06/09/2003 8:10:51 AM PDT by
js1138
To: PatrickHenry
OK--help out a non-physicist, please. First I read that:
According to the theory, the Universe is permeated by a field of Higgs bosons,...
Then I read that:
As the boson is unstable, it will quickly decay...
How can the Universe be permeated by a field of unstable, rapidly decaying particles?
27 posted on
06/09/2003 9:04:43 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
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