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cool beans... Wasn't the LHC built to spot this guy?
perhaps. Presser to be held next week. Good stuff if it is as speculated.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...Wednesday.html
God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered
Scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been found
Leading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that Higgs Boson particle has been found 'God Particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass
By Rob Cooper
PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 1 July 2012 | UPDATED: 08:41 EST, 1 July 2012
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Scientists at Cern will announce that the elusive Higgs boson 'God Particle' has been found at a press conference next week, it is believed.
Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that the particle has been discovered.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found - which is known as 'four sigma' level.
cool beans... Wasn't the LHC built to spot this guy?
[Future FoxNews topic]When will Science's War on Religion end?[/Future FoxNews topic]
what can it do for me?
It's nickname is "The God Particle" tbh. Religion is getting the credit it deserves.
Nothing....and everything.
There's been rumors around the internet for weeks now that this was the case. I hope that this actually turns out. Pretty interesting and nice to see theoretical science gather the evidence supporting it!
Should we be as skeptical as the faster than light neutrinos?
I don't know if it was specifically built to find it, but the belief was that they would find it with this one.
Maybe it's so scientists can say "we found God, and it isn't what you all thought."It's nickname is "The God Particle" tbh. Religion is getting the credit it deserves.
Maybe you should read more.
That Mother er owes me $20......wait, this isn't the same Higgs Boson I new from college is it?
If a cat without opposable thumbs can flush a toilet, then clearly anything is possible!
So the standard model survives; pretty awesome that the LHC is a success (and pretty ty that it could have done been here in Texas instead years ago).
Yeah, but for some reason I feel like had they done it here in Texas, that it would have gotten screwed up. Like the Scientists would have been overrun by compe ion grillers and the collider would have been used to make the fastest smoked brisket of all time.
so as of yet there's no Shoogarbear or cantthinkofanything boner jokes?
If anyone is looking for a simple explanation for what this means check out this video:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120501.html
in Mono's mom's vag.
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Well to be fair, there was like a .0001% chance the LHC was going to open the ninth portal to and consume the entire galaxy.
God did it.
Well done. Good explanation.
^ not enough integrals tbh
Agreed, but this way it doesn't scare every body off.
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CERN Experiments Observe Particle Consistent With Long-Sought Higgs Boson
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0704112237.htm
At a seminar held at CERN today (July 4) as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV."We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage," said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, "but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication."
"The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we're seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it's the heaviest boson ever found," said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. "The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks."
"It's hard not to get excited by these results," said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. " We stated last year that in 2012 we would either find a new Higgs-like particle or exclude the existence of the Standard Model Higgs. With all the necessary caution, it looks to me that we are at a branching point: the observation of this new particle indicates the path for the future towards a more detailed understanding of what we're seeing in the data."
The results presented today are labelled preliminary. They are based on data collected in 2011 and 2012, with the 2012 data still under analysis. Publication of the analyses shown today is expected around the end of July. A more complete picture of today's observations will emerge later this year after the LHC provides the experiments with more data.
The next step will be to determine the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the universe. Are its properties as expected for the long-sought Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics? Or is it something more exotic? The Standard Model describes the fundamental particles from which we, and every visible thing in the universe, are made, and the forces acting between them. All the matter that we can see, however, appears to be no more than about 4% of the total. A more exotic version of the Higgs particle could be a bridge to understanding the 96% of the universe that remains obscure.
"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe."
Positive identification of the new particle's characteristics will take considerable time and data. But whatever form the Higgs particle takes, our knowledge of the fundamental structure of matter is about to take a major step forward.
First: I can't believe that THIS didn't make science discovery of the week.
Second: Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest turns to him and says "get out we don't want your kind here!" and ol' Higgs says "but how can you have mass without me?"
I believe the "God Particle" was short for the "Goddamn Particle" because it was so difficult to find. Has nothing to do with religion.
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