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Has the 'God Particle' Been Found? Major Announcement Expected Tuesday
Fox News ^ | 12/13/2011

Posted on 12/13/2011 8:13:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The world of physics is abuzz with speculation over an announcement expected Tuesday, Dec. 13, from the CERN laboratory in Geneva -- home of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The announcement, planned for 8 a.m. EST, will address the status of the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle, sometimes called the "God Particle" because of its importance to science

This particle, which has long been theorized but never detected, is thought to give all other particles mass. Scientists at the LHC have been hoping that when protons inside the machine collide together at extremely high speeds, the energetic explosions that result will create the Higgs.

Researchers on two of the LHC's experiments, called ATLAS and CMS, will present the status of their search for the Higgs at a public seminar tomorrow.

"These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs," CERN scientists said in a statement.

At that time, while the atom smasher was churning out lots of data from colliding particles, researchers had yet to see any conclusive evidence of the Higgs.

If scientists have found an indication of the Higgs, it could have far-reaching consequences in physics. It is the only particle predicted by the reigning theory of particle physics that has not yet been observed experimentally. Its discovery would help validate this theory, called the Standard Model, and fill in some of the remaining gaps in physicists' understanding of the smallest pieces of the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider, a circular ring 17 miles (27 kilometers) around that's buried beneath Switzerland,

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To: LibLieSlayer

Yes, He did. :-)


21 posted on 12/13/2011 9:49:56 AM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: SeekAndFind
"This particle, which has long been theorized but never detected, is thought to give all other particles mass."

All things have their being in Him...

22 posted on 12/13/2011 10:25:58 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SeekAndFind
Has the 'God Particle' Been Found?

Yes it has. I know exactly where it is....really. And I didn't need billions of tax payer $ to find it.

23 posted on 12/13/2011 10:28:28 AM PST by quesera (We are definitely so screwed!!)
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To: GAB-1955
Well Leon DID use it as the title of his book. A very good book I might add.
24 posted on 12/13/2011 10:35:07 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: GAB-1955
Well Leon DID use it as the title of his book. A very good book I might add.
25 posted on 12/13/2011 10:35:26 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And the BIG BIG announcement is........

We are really really close this time.

These announcements are getting more than a little rediculous. When you actually discover something let us know. Otherwise we’ll just assume you are really really really close.


26 posted on 12/13/2011 10:44:42 AM PST by DManA
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To: SeekAndFind
"Yeah, and that'll lead you to another clue. And that's all you'll ever find, is another clue. Don't you get it?"


27 posted on 12/13/2011 10:50:37 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Sopater

:-)!

LLS


28 posted on 12/13/2011 11:19:30 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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