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Years After Shutting Down, Tevatron Reveals Properties of Higgs Boson
sciencehabit writes: A U.S. atom smasher has made an important scientific contribution 3.5 years after it shut down. Scientists are reporting that the Tevatron collider in Batavia, Illinois, has provided new details about the nature of the famed Higgs boson — the particle that's key to physicists' explanation of how other fundamental particles get their mass and the piece in a theory called the standard model. The new result bolsters the case that the Higgs, which was discovered at a different atom smasher, exactly fits the standard model predictions.
....pretty sure being right allows us to advance more quickly
How much?? What if we spent the money on feeding and clothing the poor, and re-populating the rainforests of the world?
No sense in researching the next big house whilst the one you're in is burning to the ground!
I hate pretentious assholes who use the word Methinks.