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Higgs Range Narrowed; Hunt Enters Final Stage
gbrumfiel writes "For forty years, the Higgs boson has remained a theoretical construct, but by Christmas, scientists may have a pretty good idea of whether it's real or not. Nature News reports that a new analysis has further narrowed the Higgs range, and data gathered this autumn at the LHC should be enough to show a faint signal from a Higgs, if it's there. (Already one signal has disappeared earlier in the year.) Physicists hope to finish their analysis of the autumn data by the year's end, but even if they come up empty-handed it won't be the end of the story. The Higgs is commonly referred to as the particle that endows others with mass, but its real appeal is the ability to unify the weak nuclear force with electromagnetism. If there is no Higgs, some other mechanism for creating a unified 'electroweak' force should be found inside the LHC."
Merry Christmas! We will all get Higgs bosons in our stockings. But I guess they have always been there, we just couldn't see them.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Higgs boson + Christmas = God Particle?
Yeah , fuck scientists! Those entitled pricks draped in lab coats haven't done shit* for us!
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* Except for essentially wiping out polio, smallpox, and a host of other major diseases. And generally improving the quality of life not just for all Americans but people the world around. And discovering nuclear power. And providing insights into how our universe works so that we may better understand it. And making the end of hunger a political problem rather than a practical problem. And...
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
What the hell is a bosone?
It unifies the pasta weak with the marinara field.
The world wide web was born at CERN. Complaining about CERN on the web is ignorantly funny.