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Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up

Posted by kdawson on from the mister-higgs-i-presume dept.

SpuriousLogic writes "CERN is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims. Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best. CERN's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7B Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics."

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  1. No by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's annoying on so many levels.

    Annoying to you. Refreshing to others, also on many levels.

    Lookit, you slipped in "C.E." for "A.D." when nobody was looking, but you're going to have to fight us for this one...

  2. Re:How do you give odds for that? by TheCybernator · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even worse. Tevatron wins the race and creates the Black Hole before September!!

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    Eclipse PDE and Me
  3. Take that CERN by hamburgler007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    USA! USA!

  4. Re:Can we stop calling it the "God Particle" yet? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 0, Troll

    Surely you mean the "Intelligent Designer Particle"?