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CERN Scientists Looking for the Force

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the yes-that-force dept.

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.'"

4 of 284 comments (clear)

  1. What? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter
    So basically, gravity?
  2. Luke... by ndnspongebob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    May the porn be with you

  3. Re:I misread that. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I spent years thinking Evian water was Naive water...That was back when bottled water was weird, so I was surprised that a company would so obviously insult their customers. Very punk rock.

    I was quite disappointed when I found out the truth.

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  4. Re:In Other (Real) News by StreetStealth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Digg: Get dugg up for making explicit reference to boobies.

    Slashdot: Get modded up for making obscure reference to boobies.

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