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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. Death is the end of time. Consciousness is time. by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And consciousness does not actually exist. Consciousness is an illusion.

  2. Nothing really exists. by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's all just perceptions and thoughts in your brain. When you die, then it all ends. The universe is your life.

  3. Re:If it's not the God particle, it's Salvia. by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is fire if there is no life to sense or measure heat?

  4. Most physicists, like priests, are... by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get in, or else.

    1. Re:Most physicists, like priests, are... by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I bet you trust physicists don't you?
      Just like you trust priests?
      And doctors?

      But why? Why trust them? They could manipulate or twist the facts to promote any kind of perspective they wish.

  5. Re:Death is the end of time. Consciousness is time by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I said salvia not alcohol. Drinking wont allow you to experience and appreciate death.

  6. Re:Death is the end of time. Consciousness is time by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Prove that thoughts exist in physical reality, and are more real than the electrons flowing through your computer?
    Prove that free will exists?

    Or accept that thoughts are an illusion, and that free will never existed, and that you are as much of an automaton as any other computer.

  7. Solipsism, look it up. by elucido · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The only universe and only thoughts proven to exist are your own. And even these could be artificial intuition.

    So if you aren't God, why believe someone else is?