Key scientist sure "God particle" will be found soon

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 04/07/2008 | Robert Evans

[UCANSEE2]

I don’t know about the Higgs Boson,

But I know where you can find some Huge Bison.

[billybudd]

Alternate headline: “Old guy about to die is sure validity of life’s work will soon be confirmed”

[onewhowatches]

Look out the window Mr. Higgs, do you see creation, every creation has a creator, and our Heavenly Creator is the one Who gives mass to the universe and makes live possible. I rest my case.

Fair enough. I could quibble that God being nonmaterial doesn't give the universe mass, but no matter.

The question is, how, within physical terms, does God do it?

[BreezyDog]

Yea... and what the heck was before the big bang? Who lit the fuse to make the big bang?

Nevermind...

[the_daug]

So should we shut down all science and stare aimlessly out the window regarding every unanswered question?

That would be contrary to the command of God.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and
fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of
the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

[TheWasteLand]

the "Higgs boson," which originates from the force

May the Higgs boson be with you. Seriously, it would be impressive to find the gravity particle. A long time coming.

[Migraine]

I echo your quote and add this one to augment it:

Hebrews 1: 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power...

The part about "upholding all things" is very mysterious (like the 'God particle' being asserted here). It also contains the force we've been seeking -- the force that keeps the particles apart, giving space and mass to the objects in the universe, keeping all from collapsing in on itself. Quite remarkable, actually. The Apostle seems to have been given some rather sophisticated insight into it.

[Stayfree]

The fact that God created a member of mankind who could build such a complicated machine is proof that He is there. It is silly, logically, to think that anything will detect a particle of God...wake up morons, God's particles are already all around us in the form of birds, trees, water, earth, humans, dogs, cats, women with fertility built-in, emotions, smog, oil, dinosaurs, life, death and the ability to believe in a power so great as to create it all???

Get down on your knees and pray...particles of God will rain down and give you peace, you fool!

[The_Reader_David]

On the other hand. . .

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There’s your “boson” Mr. Higgs! Right there in verse 17.

Um, no. Those are just verses from a religious text, which explain nothing to those who aren't willing to accept them on blind faith.

[Erasmus]

So you might say we're all Waiting for Godon.

<}B^)

[CJ Wolf]

I worked on some of the data network requirements for this thingy. the first 20 minutes of operations should pump out enough data for a single man to read non-stop for the next 200 years.

[CJ Wolf]

On the other hand a Married man wouldn’t be allowed to read non-stop. He’d have to take 174500 years of 20 minutes on the john reading, getting hollered at just 10 minutes into it.

[SpaceBar]

It is silly, logically, to think that anything will detect a particle of God...

It's editorial hyperbole. It would be a crowning achievement towards verifying the Standard Model, but God particle is simply pushing things for journalistic sensationalism.

[444Flyer]

A couple more interesting articles written for laymen about the Large Hadron Collider:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331122534.htm

And these guys have an interesting theory on its potential.
Two men have theorized the Collider could destroy all life on earth (but not to worry it’s just a “small chance of annihilation of the planet”).

“Fight to save Earth from tiny black hole”
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/fight-to-save-earth-from-tiny-black-hole/2008/04/01/1206850910851.html

[hosepipe]

” The Higgs Boson exists not” - Hoseya

[garylmoore]

So should we shut down all science and stare aimlessly out the window regarding every unanswered question?

You want the answers to questions? Look to the Word, it will answer all your questions.

[garylmoore]

Saying a Heavenly Creator created everything is avoiding the question.

It’s simply a matter of Faith. And about questions, truth will be unfolding to the believer throughout eternity.

[garylmoore]

The question is, how, within physical terms, does God do it?

Simple, He is God!

[Eyes Unclouded]

One would expect this effort to advance computational sciences almost as much as particle physics. FWIW I know plenty of grad students who would do it for a modicum of pizza and nice European beer...