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Higgs Boson Detected?

Posted by michael on from the now-you-see-it dept.

Travis McGee writes "A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics - the Higgs boson - may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak. The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter. The report was published in Nature magazine and the BBC has an article." The last time the elusive particle was in the news was 2001.

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  1. Different Name by falzer · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should have called it the bogon.

    1. Re:Different Name by SlowMovingTarget · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually I prefer weak grin bozon.

      Well, OK, this particle is already named in the "Theory of Extra Special Relativity":

      We start from the foundation of the dopeler effect: Stupid ideas that come at you rapidly seem smarter than they actually are.

      Through our observations of individuals exposed to prolonged dopeler-shifted emanations, we can see that emission of dumb ideas tends to attract other dumb ideas, which in turn leads to a chain reaction of idiocy. All minds in the vicinity of high energy dolt fields are warped, consequently all conversations seem to take an infinitely long time.

      Experimental evidence suggests that there is a limit to the density of weak grin bozon sources that any given region of space may sustain. Once this limit is passed, all thought in the region collapses in on itself to become a Quantum Imbecilic Singularity, from which no good idea may escape. QIS formations may be detected by searching for accretion disks of broken dreams, and massive jets of anticluons coming from a vector perpendicular to the back end of the accretion disk.

  2. but the evidence is still relatively weak. by dpilot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Groan!

    Was the pun intentional?

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  3. Re:The boson kludge by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vitamegavegamin

    The correct spelling is Vitameatavegemin.

    Vitameatavegemin contains vitamins, meat, vegetables and minerals. That's Vita-Meata-Vegemin.

    Drumroll please, as we find out how old the moderators are.

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