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Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery At LHC

Magnifico writes "LiveScience is reporting that scientists are abuzz over a controversial rumor that the 'God particle' has been detected by a particle-detection experiment at LHC at CERN. The Higgs boson rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic... The buzz started when an anonymous commenter recently posted an abstract of the note on Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit's blog, Not Even Wrong. This could be a flat-out hoax or a statistical anomaly or... confirmation of the particle that bestows mass on all the other particles."

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  1. Re:It's little more than speculation by AntiDoto · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you have a better idea for determining the structure of the universe then please let us hear it.

    How about this?

  2. Re:Nah it's just by Sla$hPot · · Score: 1, Troll

    You got it!
    The greater the economical pressure the heavier the budgeton.
    When the economy heats up again the budgeton vaporizes and new theories arises. It repeats it self as a circular wave funtion. As it moves it creates randomness on the worlds stock exchanges. However it does not obey schrödinger uncertainty principle. Insiders know about this.

  3. Re:Nah it's just by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 0, Troll

    Third rate physics PhD, eh? Feeling high and mighty because you passes computer "science" 101? Join up with the creationists, they are around your intellectual level. Seriously, that's what passes for the nerd community these days? Revolting.

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  4. Re:Nah it's just by lightknight · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, third rate physics PhDs. Plenty of them out there. If you read published papers, you will see a lot of them. It's not just spelling and grammar errors, which can easily be forgiven (they aren't English majors). It's crap research: they are plagiarizing someone else's work and passing it off as their own, they are performing experiments and fudging the results, they are performing experiments that could be considered fraudulent (grant is to study gravitational lensing, money gets spent on other things (like a trip to Vegas), actual research involves spending a day sifting through stock photos from an eclipse).

    I have never taken Computer Science 101. But hey, nice attempt at shifting the conversation to a personal attack.

    Creationists? On a bit of a fishing expedition here, aren't you?

    And then you attack /. Excellent. I can tell from your UID that you've haven't been on the internet very long, so here's some free advice: not everyone on the internet is going to agree with you, and it's not personal. Here's a *hug* because your parents forgot to give you one.

    Now get back out there, and troll as you have never trolled before!

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