[Candor7]

In particle physics, the Higgs boson is a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not yet been observed. Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help explain how massless elementary particles can have mass. More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon, which mediates electromagnetism, and the massive W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak force. If the Higgs boson exists, it is an integral and pervasive component of the material world.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Had to post for those who read this article.

I suppose if we knew how they worked, we could glue and unglue matter at te sub atomic level.

[counterpunch]

The results suggest that the Higgs boson is not a relatively high-mass particle, and physicists must keep looking for evidence of the Higgs boson in the lower-mass debris that sprays from particle collisions inside the Tevatron.

If the Higgs gives all matter its mass, then wouldn't all debris with mass contain the Higgs?
And does a Higgs particle have any mass by itself?
If a Higgs particle even has mass on its own, could it possibly have more mass than another particle which must derrive its own mass from the Higgs?

Using mass to detect the Higgs seems paradoxical to me.
 

[hinckley buzzard]

I have absolutely no idea how we arrived at this place, but I celebrate it nonetheless as a tribute to the cumulative conceptual power of the human mind.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206301/posts

Single top quark detected
Science News | March 10th, 2009 | Solmaz Barazesh
Posted on 03/13/2009 9:49:17 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206336/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[allmost]

If it exists. My money’s on the Tevatron. They are way ahead. An international coallition, think UN, is inherently less efficient.

[allmost]

I’m not so sure they will find it. The Higgs that is.

[AdmSmith]

This graph

on the Fermi page http://www.fnal.gov/ excludes with 95 % certainty the range 160 to 170 GeV/c². The question is if it is in the lower interval i.e. 114 - 160 or in the higher interval, 170-185. If it is in the lower range it can be found by the Tevatron at Fermilab, otherwise we have to wait for the LHC.