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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.'"

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  1. Re:Obligatory by furbearntrout · · Score: 0, Redundant

    37 results (vs 19,300 for hadron collider).
    Thats about one fifth of a percent, Not that many.
    as the parent said, just a few.

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  2. Are they... by shdwtek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...hacking the Higgs Boson? Too much of a stretch?

  3. mmm sausage by bl8n8r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    supercooled magnets, linked like sausages.

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