[Darth Reagan]

So, maybe now they'll look elsewhere.

[RadioAstronomer]

Now is when I really miss the SSC.

[Ward Smythe]

help to unravel the secrets of the universe

Maybe the GOD who is not a "particle" doesn't want to tell them the secrets of HIS universe...

[maestro]

LOL
(?? What/Who 'is' Space??)
(?? Exactly, what 'is' the 'evolution' of Space??)
LOL

[randog]

Maybe OJ will stumble across it in his never-ending search for his wife's killer.

[Christian B]

I'm not sure why they're trying to find God. Liberals already know where He is: in multiculturalism, the government, and in any Old Navy.

[Mr.Clark]

If anyone wants to read a great novel concerning this research and its bearing on religion, pick up Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Great read.

[Alas]

LONDON (Reuters) - After years of searching and months of sifting through data, scientists have still not found the elusive sub-atomic particle that could help to unravel the secrets of the universe, a science magazine said on Wednesday.

That is because they have not looked in the right place, all they need do is read Genesis one and two. They are looking for proof of the worlds evolving, you can not find proof of somethign that never happened. Oh, you can make up proof, but you can never find any real proof.

Genesis Chapter One

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Alas

[Barry Goldwater]

An excellent book for curious minds is "Physics" or "Physics 2001" by Roland Dishington. It's very technical but will open some minds. Available from Beak Publications PO Box 333 Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. The statistical and mystical nature of physics is thrown out the window in this one.

[Physicist]

The Higgs boson will be discovered whether it is there or not. If the Higgs boson is not there, then before you get to a collision energy of 1 TeV, the interaction strength between the W bosons becomes gigantic. This leads to huge resonances that play the same role as the Higgs boson, and mimic many of its properties. (Geeks: if the electroweak symmetry is not spontaneously broken, it must break dynamically.) If this does not happen, it will violate the principle of unitarity, which is the requirement that the probability of any interaction not exceed 100%.

Anyway, I don't know why these guys are wringing their hands about the Higgs, unless they are pushing strong electroweak sector models like I described above. LEP had a 2.5-sigma indication of a Higgs at 114 GeV just before it shut down. The only other game in town is the Tevatron at Fermilab, but that won't have enough data to make useful statements about the Higgs for a couple of years, yet.

``We've eliminated most of the hunting area,'' Neil Calder, of CERN, told the magazine.

I have no idea where this claim comes from.

[boris]

I think it is that God doesn't want us to figure out things too easily:

"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
-Hesiod, Works and Days

[JediGirl]

bimpity bump

[Hammerhead]

While these guys are trying to find the secrets of the universe, using all sorts of far out mathematical formulas, hypothesis, molecular structure models etc. etc. Im busy getting drunk, whatching sitcoms, chasing chicks et.al. Man, what a wast of time for them.

[Lazamataz]

New Scientist said the problem for physicists is that, without the Higgs particle, they do not have a viable theory of matter.

You guys suck. At least we programmers and analysts can get stuff working! Ha! Ha! Ha!

[bray]

Poor Atheists, looking but not finding.

Prayers for GW and the Truth!

[hsszionist]

Looking for G-d in all the wrong places.

[Physicist]

Scientists have been searching for the Higgs particle ever since Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University first proposed in the 1960s that it could explain why matter has mass.

Point of scientific accuracy: the Higgs mechanism may explain why quarks and leptons have mass. Most of the mass of ordinary matter, however, comes from protons and neutrons, and they don't get their mass via the Higgs mechanism, but through quantum chromodynamics. (You can't just add up quark masses to get the proton and neutron masses).

[Logophile]

After years of searching and months of sifting through data, scientists have still not found the elusive sub-atomic particle that could help to unravel the secrets of the universe, a science magazine said on Wednesday.

Hah! Particle physicists (or those who write about them) have such delusions of grandeur. Most of the secrets of the universe would remain just as secretive if the "God Particle" were discovered.

For example, we still do not understand how to compute velocity fields in turbulent flows, how to create life from inanimate matter, or how to find socks lost in the drier.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Using the world's largest particle accelerator at the CERN (news - web sites ) nuclear physics lab near Geneva, scientists had hunted for the Higgs boson, which has been dubbed the ``God particle,'' until the accelerator was closed late last year.

Accelerators hurl particles at nearly the speed of light on a collision course to break them up so scientists can study the nature of matter.

I can see it now, some poor SOB out there in a parallel universe is home watchin the evening news. Then....WHAM! We vaporize his Volkswagen.

Just Kidding :-)

[StriperSniper]

do not have a viable theory of matter.

Could that be used as 'reasonable doubt' in court to the possesion of any banned or regulated object or substance?;-)

[k2blader]

``We've eliminated most of the hunting area,'' Neil Calder, of CERN, told the magazine.

Have they "hunted" through the Bible any? Good place to start findin' God. :)