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Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing

Posted by kdawson on from the putting-the-standard-model-to-bed dept.

holy_calamity writes "The Large Hadron Collider is in trouble again. It will start work sometime in spring 2008, not November this year as planned. The delay has been blamed on an 'accumulation of minor setbacks,' and comes on top of a 'design fault' that saw breakdown of magnets supplied by the competing Fermilab. Yesterday Slate nicely rounded up increasingly loud rumors among physicists that Fermilab may already have seen the Higgs particle, the 'holy grail of particle physics' the LHC was build to find."

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  1. I didnt ask for by jzuska · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't ask for "No Dupes" but perhaps we get paid for checking tenses....

    just sayin

  2. Re:Not by maxwell+demon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eye all ways use a spell chequer. That way eye no four sure that their are know miss takes in my spelling!

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  3. Re:god? by thelandp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    the existance of the Mass-Free Higgins Boson

    Hey now! Even Tom Selleck wasn't rude enough to call Higgins a boson

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