CERN Scientists Looking for the Force

An anonymous reader writes "National Geographic has a fascinating article on the God Particle, which can help explain the Standard Model and get us closer to explain the Grand Unified Theory. The obligatory Star Wars-angle summary is even better: 'CERN's scientists, the fine people who brought us the W and Z particles, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter.'"

Comments

Obligatory

[drunken_boxer777]

"Use the Large Hadron Collider, Luke."

Atheism

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't believe in the God Particle. ...you knew that was coming.

*A wave of magnetic flux passes*

[Jedi Holocron]

These are not the particles you are looking for.

Re:Grand Unified Theory

[user317]

If they are to find "Grand Unified Theory" I wander if it contains not only "The Function" that explains all interactions in universe but more importantly, why is function evaluated at all and how it is evaluated. Is it possible that any mathematical function can evaluate itself, and if not, is there any other explanation? That would be perhaps more interesting answer then The Function itself. Unfortunately its lazy evaluated, so we'll never know.

Re:What?

[owlnation]

Unfortunately folks are mixing Newtonian and Einsteinian explanations of gravity

Yep, never cross the streams.