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CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-block dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Higgs boson is regarded as the key to understanding the universe. Physicists say its job is to give the particles that make up atoms their mass. Without this mass, these particles would zip though the cosmos at the speed of light, unable to bind together to form the atoms that make up everything in the universe, from planets to people. From the article: 'Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that the particle has been discovered. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found - which is known as 'four sigma' level. Peter Higgs, the Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics that the particle is named after, is among those who have been called to the press conference in Switzerland."

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  1. Re:when these genius people are 100% by vlm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For 100% certainty you need religion

    Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)

    Interesting how its the soft sciences and the archaeologists and bio majors who get all the heat from the fundies, but the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.

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    "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  2. Re:"one in a a trillion" event by jovius · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder how many and what particles have been released by the high energy collisions happening in the universe since the big bang... Could there exist a significant field of some exotic particles just because of random head on collisions of cosmic rays in space?

  3. Beyond the Higgs Boson? by CMYKjunkie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since I am too lazy to RTFA and since some people here are surely smart in this field, can you answer this: is there a particle BEYOND the Higgs that will be looked for next? That is to say, "we" always think we have found the smallest particle/farthest object/oldest artifact/etc. but then we later realize there is something smaller/farther/older/heavier/etc. Can we expect that to happen here as well?

  4. Fermilab Press Release today regarding the Higgs by stox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2012/Higgs-Tevatron-20120702.html

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