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Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force

Posted by samzenpus on from the probably-a-build-up-of-midichlorians dept.

schleprock63 writes "Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in their data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature. The discovery could 'be the most significant discovery in physics in half a century.' Physicists have ruled out that the particle could be the standard model Higgs boson, but theorize that it could be some new and unexpected version of the Higgs. This discovery comes as the Tevatron is slated to go offline sometime in September."

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  1. It has now been named.... by levell · · Score: 4, Funny

    It shall henceforth be known as the pleaseExtendOurFunding-ion.

    OK, I jest. On a more serious (but related) note, back in 2000, when the LEP at CERN was shutting down, there were possible "hints" of the Higgs' Boson and pleas to extend the running time (which were ultimately denied so that the LHC would not be delayed).

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  2. Re:I know it's petty... by AshtangiMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in that there data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature."

    Fixed

  3. Re:If it's not the God particle, it's Salvia. by Fibe-Piper · · Score: 4, Funny

    A person who smoked salvia said that a black hole in reality opened up and their soul was sucked into it. Meanwhile physicists claim that black holes suck in matter and light and it can never escape.

    Maybe if more physicists smoked Salvia they'd have a better natural understanding of the universe. They would understand that salvia is an alien lifeform, a plant brought to the earth by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greys to consume our souls. They would understand that our reality is an illusion and that this force they just discovered is the salvia force, the ultimate proof of alien life. The universe and existence is fake, accept it. You don't have consciousness, you are just a biological machine, please accept it.

    Oddly enough, your post is as worth reading as the 40+ posts that came after it. You may have proved a point. God know what it is (maybe on some quantum scale you are proving that insanity is sanity at the same time) but, well done old chap.

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  4. Re:Do they account for hypothesis-mining? by Njoyda+Sauce · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oblig XKCD: http://xkcd.com/882/

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