Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing

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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Noooo!

[Jethro]

Don't they know that if they find the higgs particle, the entire planet will collapse on itself and end up about the size of a pea??!

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I just saw a really friggin huge dragonfly in my yard.

Higgs bosun was used to "prove" God exists

[weedenbc]

In his book "The Physics of Immortality" Dr. Frank Tipler puts forth a mathmatical proof for the existence of "God" (what he calls the Omega Point) and the ressurection. A very interesting read.

One of the testable results of his proof was that the Higgs bosun had to have a certain mass for the universe to collapse in the specific way needed to create the Omega Point.

Tipler's theory is still controversial and unlikely to be proven true given the recent findings out the amount of mass in the universe and that it is still acceleration away but still a really interesting read.