This could be the year of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics. More clues about it are emerging at a U.S.-based collider whose budgetary woes shut it down last year.
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has just announced that it has found hints of the ever-so-important particle, which are consistent with observations from the Large Hadron Collider.
Finding the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass, one of the open questions in physicists' current understanding of the way the universe works. The particle has been so difficult to pin down (metaphorically speaking) that physicist Leon Lederman reportedly wanted to call his book "The Goddamn Particle." But he truncated that epithet to "The God Particle," which may have helped elevate the particle's allure in popular culture.
Scientists working on two independent experiments at the Tevatron accelerator in Batavia, Illinois, see patterns in data that might - just might - be indicative of signals from a Higgs boson. If so, that particle would have a mass between 115 to 135 GeV.
"A clearer picture is starting to emerge," said Rob Roser, physicist at Fermilab.
But the results from U.S. collider experiments don't have enough statistical significance to call their data a discovery.
Neither do the analyses that have come out of the Large Hadron Collider, located 328 feet underground beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The LHC announced similar results in December 2011. But the $10 billion machine, which is much more powerful than Tevatron, did not deliver proof of the existence of the Higgs boson, either.
"The search continues," Roser said.
Related: Why is the 'God particle' so important?
Tevatron, which booted up in 1983, had its final run in September 2011. Scientists are still investigating the dataset gleaned from smashing protons and anti-protons. Anti-protons can be extracted from colliding protons into a target.
The Higgs boson announcement comes on the tail of another breakthrough from what used to be the United States' most powerful particle accelerator: The Tevatron measured the mass of the W boson, another particle, at an unprecedented level of precision. This number and the mass of the top quark, another particle, can help predict the mass of the Higgs boson. That, too, is consistent with this new result.
Sadly, there's no more data to analyze from the defunct collider, Roser said. But he and colleagues may still be able to improve their analyses enough to have just a bit more certainty about the potential Higgs boson.
"All our good ideas are done already. What’s left are some hard ideas," he said. "Maybe we can improve it [the Higgs analysis] at the 10 to 20% level."
Also on the bright side, the LHC is expected to deliver four times the amount of data in 2012 than it got in the last two years. "That should be enough for it to make a proof-positive statement" about whether there really is or is not a Higgs boson, Roser said.
Scientists announced the development at Rencontres de Moriond, the annual conference on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, in Italy.
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
| Advertise with us | About us | Help | Advertising Practices
As of todays date, they have found it!
Valuable info. Fortunate me I found your site by accident, and I am shocked why this accident did not took place earlier! I bookmarked it.
time for father satan to come forth through the gateway the hadron collider has opened. Interdimensional demons will make way for the dragon to wipe away this world of UNWORTH.
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the e-book in it or something. I believe that you can do with a few p.c. to force the message home a little bit, but other than that, that is wonderful blog. An excellent read. I will certainly be back.
Hi there, I found your site via Google even as looking for a related subject, your website came up, it looks great. I have added to favourites|added to my bookmarks.
You realize thus considerably when it comes to this matter, produced me for my part imagine it from numerous various angles. Its like men and women don't seem to be fascinated until it is one thing to accomplish with Lady gaga! Your own stuffs outstanding. Always deal with it up!
Hiya very nice web site!! Guy .. Excellent .. Wonderful .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds additionally?I'm satisfied to search out a lot of useful info here in the publish, we'd like work out more techniques in this regard, thanks for sharing. . . . . .
I do not even know how I finished up right here, however I assumed this post was once great. I don't realize who you're but definitely you are going to a well-known blogger when you are not already. Cheers!
Fantastic put up, very informative. I wonder why the other experts of this sector don't understand this. You must continue your writing. I'm confident, you've a huge readers' base already!|What's Going down i am new to this, I stumbled upon this I've discovered It positively helpful and it has aided me out loads. I am hoping to give a contribution & assist other customers like its helped me. Good job.
Wonderful paintings! This is the type of info that should be shared across the net. Disgrace on Google for now not positioning this post upper! Come on over and talk over with my website . Thanks =)
We're a group of volunteers and opening a brand new scheme in our community. Your web site provided us with useful info to work on. You have done a formidable task and our entire neighborhood will probably be thankful to you.
That is really attention-grabbing, You're an excessively skilled blogger. I've joined your feed and look ahead to in quest of more of your fantastic post. Also, I've shared your site in my social networks
We are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your site provided us with valuable info to work on. You have done an impressive process and our entire neighborhood will likely be thankful to you.
You actually make it seem so easy with your presentation however I in finding this matter to be really something that I believe I might by no means understand. It seems too complex and very wide for me. I'm looking ahead to your next publish, I will try to get the dangle of it!
I’m not student of metaphysics or philosophy so my perspective on this could be some well established or widely disputed or even generally discounted approach of which I am not aware. I feel that almost each and every precept or axiom should be challenged or even discounted from the start. For example, the worn out insistence that there had to be a creator based on the widely accepted principle of cause-and-effect coupled with the time continuum is something I am inclined to dismiss, as cause-and-effect is a human construct and so is time. Even with relativistic physics, whose proponents defend as being insulated from humanity, there could be a fallible human component to time theory as described by Einstein for he was human. Maybe this is a cop out to avoid the hard work required of philosophy and metaphysics, but I can’t help but challenge many of the premises of these arguments and it is also my way of acknowledging my smallness in this universe – humility. This allows for anything, but personally, I'm not about to settle on something and insist it be taught in our classrooms as an alternative to science which, for the time-being, is the best show in town. Another way to put it is, if I come t find out that this Judeo-Christian thing was real after all, I would not be totally flabbergasted, but I very seriously doubt that it is real. I'm guessing this is something like that nihilism I’ve run across while watching Jeopardy. Picked up the book but never actually read Sartre even though I know just enough to get it right on the game.
Remarkable issues here. I'm very satisfied to peer your article. Thank you so much and I'm looking forward to touch you. Will you kindly drop me a mail?
Somebody essentially lend a hand to make seriously articles I'd state. That is the very first time I frequented your website page and so far? I surprised with the analysis you made to create this particular publish extraordinary. Excellent process!
You already know thus considerably in terms of this topic, made me in my opinion imagine it from a lot of varied angles. Its like men and women don't seem to be involved until it's one thing to do with Woman gaga! Your personal stuffs outstanding. All the time care for it up!
I like the valuable information you provide on your articles. I'll bookmark your weblog and check once more right here frequently. I am relatively sure I'll be told plenty of new stuff proper right here! Best of luck for the next!
Hi there, just became alert to your blog thru Google, and located that it's truly informative. I am gonna watch out for brussels. I will be grateful if you continue this in future. Numerous other people will likely be benefited out of your writing. Cheers!
Fantastic items from you, man. I've take into accout your stuff previous to and you are just extremely excellent. I actually like what you have got here, really like what you're stating and the way in which you are saying it. You're making it enjoyable and you still care for to keep it wise. I can not wait to learn far more from you. That is really a terrific web site.
Wow, fantastic weblog structure! How lengthy have you ever been blogging for? you make blogging glance easy. The whole glance of your site is magnificent, let alone the content!
I cherished up to you will receive carried out right here. The sketch is attractive, your authored subject matter stylish. nevertheless, you command get bought an shakiness over that you wish be turning in the following. unwell undoubtedly come further earlier once more as precisely the similar nearly a lot steadily within case you protect this hike.
Scientific research is both important and necessary for understanding our world and the universe around us. But I am always intrigued by the consistent fact that no matter how far back we go in time we still have a particle that if it existed, we still can't explain why it existed. Is it reasonable to think that something came from nothing? If this is not a reasonable idea, and if this particle exists, how did it first come into existence?
Stop arguing. Religion is "truth" (as far as our ant's eyes can "see" it) as METAPHOR, and best interpreted via poetry. Science is TESTED KNOWLEDGE, and best judged by application. Religion that is not poetry, religion that is exclusively literal and rigid – no matter what dogma use to sink our neurons onto – is arrogance at its worst, and power-madness at its worst. Science can only tell us about the mysteries of the material world – an enormously important & fascinating & useful discipline! – but science without meaning via an ethical framework is nothing more than a profit source for pirate corporation. Each sphere of human endeavor needs to keep its own house clean, and mind its own business.
Has man become so arrogant as to challenge the existance of GOD ?...Don't kid yourselves, sometime in the future, you will stand before him face to face..Good luck to you....... Big Bang? Yes, there could have been a "Big Bang" but only by God's doing in his own way, a way that us humans will never be able to figure out completely.
Take those $10 billion dollars and see how many poor people can be helped, sounds better, doesn't it?
Keep your religious nonsense in your church where it belongs. If you want to believe obvious claptrap like the bible and other fairy tales, go ahead, but do it on your own time. People are trying to have an intelligent discussion here.
How about all of the religious folks read the article, get their kicks out of it, and leave without comment. I enjoy reading other comments in a scientific perspective. Holy Rollers go else where and preach, let it be.
The Higgs will never be found. Matter gets it's mass from space itself "THROUGH FIELDS", not particles.
"My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment." — Nikola Tesla
I would like for once to see a particle physics article without the nut jobs crawling out from under their rock, too post meaningless sleaze. Your god or gods never exsisted other than in your imagination.
If man can create a universe at CERN, who is to say our universe was not created in a similar fashion? Perhaps, are universe was created by a being that not only could create but could influance? Hmmmn?
Electron Space-The Conduit to Advanced Technology! The other way that scientists will discover how the universe works and how particles move in space is to develop a computer program capable of mapping the inside of an atomic particle. Science has decided to build huge particle accelerators like the one at CERN. However, this research will finally reveal new information worthy of further exploration but the secret of success will not come in this way but rather by developing a computer program that is capable of mapping the inside of an atomic particle.
Elements possess varied electron conduction properties. Scientists must first select an element or combination of elements such as sodium chloride (NACL) for example, where the electron conduits are large and easier to map. In elements with larger “E. Conduits” the electrons are moving at relative slower speeds. Water (H2O) has huge electron conduits and slow moving electrons but because of its fluidity it is unstable and so would be an impediment for experimentation. So, whatever substance is selected, the electrons must be numerous and slow moving as this undertaking requires stable and consistent computer measurement. Every geometrical formation that exists within the atomic particle must be charted. These geometrical formations will prove to science that other dimensional particles are intersecting particles that exist within our spectrum of perception or dimension.[more…]
http://www.divineadvancedhumanbeings.com/electron-spacethe-conduit-to-advanced-technology/
I am really impressed together with your writing talents and also with the layout on your weblog. Is that this a paid theme or did you modify it your self? Either way keep up the nice high quality writing, it's rare to look a nice blog like this one today..
@ Mickey and others:
It is not that theists are stupid and don't want to accept something that can explain our world better, it's that they realize as humans our understanding of the world is finite, as scientists and scholars have wondered about the world for as long as we've walked the earth. I believe humans were meant to wonder, but that is not the sole purpose for our creation. We were meant to understand that we do not know everything and that those that claim they do indeed no little in comparison to the abundance of knowledge that is to come.
I do believe in God and that he knows everything, and since we have just realized the big bang in the last few hundred years, think of how much knowledge that has yet to be discovered. and we have the nerve to discredit God like we know everything....even your Socrates realized that the more that he learned, the less he realized he actually knew.
...g-d religious freaks...
....ever notice how religious people are so sure about religion that it overcomes any scientific skepticism in a society that rose out of tens of thousands of years of irrational human behavior *because* of logic, reason, and fact-based science?
None of that matters because they KNOW.
How do they know?
Do they ever bother to think of that?
What makes them so g-d ***sure***?
I guess they are all-knowing & can't be wrong.
God-like, even.
Hello! eeabded interesting eeabded site! I'm really like it! Very, very eeabded good!
Well, there you go! e should listen to PriomeWonk and Jim because – obviously – they were tyhere to witness all this thirty million or whatever years ago. At least that's how they sound when they arrogantly present their contentions of creatyion as undispoutable facts, while dismissing God's version. Good for them! Now cure cancer and solve world hunger; you apparently are all-knowing ...
Because bronze age fairy tales made up by uneducated sheepherders are SO much more believable than anything modern scientific methods can come up with.
I spent my childhood being indoctrinated by a church... fortunately I loved learning about natural law. Some people are not meant to follow voodoo. I'm sure if there is a God that he would be happy to just have us be honest and accepting of each other. I'd absolutely LOVE to have god come to me and tell me everything is going to be okay.. that I am not just another animal and that the cruel acts of the human existence are just some sort of twisted test. Look at our galaxy and tell me that it doesn't look all blown to hell.. and find the damn "particle" so we can prove the calculations and move on.
. I have a GED in supercollider’s. I can tell you right now that there is no doubt of many collisions in one. In fact, for the layman, it’s like the freeway in rush hour traffic. Some collide and some don’t. Soon I will take supercollider’s 1.02 and know why we are posting on this forum.
Atheists are doubtful of everything. They choose doubt as their religion. I don't understand that.
It is mutual. You choose faith as a way. Why choose faith if you have knowledge? Better question: why stop your faith where you do? Why do you believe some things on faith and not others?
How many faiths did you try before you settled on your particular faith?
Atheists just don't make that leap of faith. We don't believe anything we don't have reason to. If we decided to believe in a god or gods, we would have a huge challenge trying to pick one from the thousands available.
Atheists choose doubt over and above everything else. Jsut saying.
Theists pick delusion. Just sayin'.
Scientists are so arrogant to think they have any definitive answers at all.
By definition, science does not think it has definitive answers. That is a misunderstanding. Science has concluded answers lead to through empirical study and the inferences from such. These are used to form theories, which is all that science is composed of.
No one has definitive answers, and scientists will be the first to tell you this, as they do not suffer from the misunderstanding that many non-scientists do.
I'm with Owen, which god. Let's also not forget the American Indian and the Great Spirit. If anyone or any faith had real proof of the existence of God, then "he" might be more believable. Also, if bodies of people know so much about "god" then how come no two religions have an extensive commonality. Also, more humans have died in wars waged in the name of "god" than from all the plagues ever experienced on this planet.
I bet God gets a kick out of man building this huge contraption to try and duplicate a particle - imagine creating a universe.
"imagine creating a universe"
LoL! As if such a thing could be done.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof
Listen, God, no God, that argument could go on for days.
I'm happy just knowing that no matter what side of the aisle you're on, we all spend our valuable and finite time with fruitful labors such as science-article-discussion-posting. And to think! I almost called my mom instead of reading this thread.
I called my mom because of this thread!
ironic
Einstein said he was trying to get into the mind of God, when he developed the theory of relativity.
But the fact that we live an incredibly complex and infinitely mysterious existence doesn't necessary prove
there is all-powerful, sentient creator who inhabits a parallel reality, manipulates our own reality but remains completely invisible. All it proves is that we inhabit an incredibly complex and infinitely mysterious reality. The problem is, if you don't buy into a God scenario, you don't have anywhere else to go at this point.
Einstein stated that he didn`t belive in the GOD deal either
CNN, PLEASE stop using that ridiculous moniker! If you want to be historically correct, call it "that godd@mn particle", which is it's proper (and original) name.
BACON is the TRUE GOD Particle:
based on your apparent proclivities bob, I'm convinced we would make fast friends.
I am a physicist. I think I will name my next paper "The God Article" so I can get more press... Yeah, that'll give me more credibility.
All scientists must presuppose that nature is orderly in order for scientific testing to be meaningful. For instance, measuring the speed of a ball rolling down an inclined plane would be pointless if the force of gravity were constantly changing in an unpredictable way. Why is there an order and consistancy in everything?
Well we call them 'laws"... and they are what we observe empirically. If we saw that things changed we would adjust to suit. But the Basis of Einstein's relativity is that everything affects everything else and it's always changing.
At the macro level, things appear to be orderly. Look at something as simple as a petri dish full of pond water and you will see quite a different realm. Look up Einstein's paper on Brownian motion. Also, try the book "Chaos, Order, Chaos". Things are not as they appear.
Quantum mechanics teaches us that cause and effect are not orderly, but random. It is only because of applied probability theory that things appear orderly on the macro level. That is, god does play dice and the unknown parameter argument raised by Einstein to preserve the concept of an orderly universe is wrong, the ERP Paradox notwithstanding, as demonstrated by the work of John Bell.
for ever action there is a reaction ,that is science , god is a creation of man , a fantasy of the weak minded
We are all God since it is our thoughts and energy that created this world and these particles!
You may be closer to the truth than you even realize. At the core of mass may be an idea.
I use to believe that, but now I understand the organic balance of life and how we are in relationship to the earth, who is dominate over us, not the other way round. now spirit is another realm altogether.
True, in a sense. The observed does not exist independent of an observer who is a necessary component of the system. Quantum mechanics 101. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, it does not make a sound. John Bell and others. BTW – the observer need not be human or even alive. An understanding of decoherence resolves that issue and preserves the sanity of Schroedinger's cat.
BaWahahahahahahahahaha.... that Goddam particle again!!
If Jesus had wanted us to know the origin of mass, he would have told us when he wrote the bible!
Now I lay me down to sleep
Visions of Bosons at my feet
If I should croak before I wake
I pray that Higgs my Bosons take
For whilst I take eternal rest
I want no part in a physics test
The Mass of Gas I will not seek
Nor from my grave will I speak
But know you this before I depart
This whole Higgs thing could be just a Fart.
The word "data" is plural as in (from the 4th to last paragraph): "Sadly, there are no more data to analyze..." rather than
"Sadly, there's no more data to analyze..."
It is a pretty pathetic peeve to have, I admit. But it is amazing how often the word is treated as singular (as "datum").
Your puny Jesus promised to get rid of the wicked
My father Odin promised to get rid of Ice Giants
Do you see any Ice Giants
Proof of the past existence of Ice Giants settles it
75% of the universe is made of Dark energy, and we know almost nothing about it. All this effort to find Higgs and it doesn't even do anything to explain Dark Energy. How much you wanna bet that the current scientific model for how the universe works gets completely thrown out in 10 years?
Dark energy is thought to be the 'virtual mass' of quantum fluctuations in empty space... which is ridiculous to me. If Quantum fluctuations partially exist as particles in our dimension then having mass makes more sense.
This will show us we are connected to an even bigger reality... perhaps the God particle is not a misnomer.
Theory: An educated, insightful, scientifically-sound guess.
no wonder I'm fat, too many Higgs boson value meals
Has anyone thought about this particle not entirely existing in this dimension? I believe quantum fluctuations may be transition particles that exist in a somewhat separate dimension. Gravitons may be similar. Why can't the Big Bang be a white hole that exists as black hole in our future...when space/time becomes non-relative in the singularity? In this scenario time is cyclical and relative and it is 2-dimensional. String theory predicts multiple dimensions in sub Planck-length space. If this is true, a relative-time can exist within one of these and only interact with our time at the core of a black hole. Time is relative.
Perhaps the big bag is part of two super-membranes (M-Theory) colliding together, creating a force that reorganizes the universe as we know it. Hence, to your point we are seeing the side-affects of an even bigger picture.
Can anyone say, "Massive taxpayer-fueled boondoggle?" Where's a bridge to nowhere when you need one?
What a waste, indeed. In the time it took you to read the article (probably the headline only) and write your comment, you could have learned a lot more about the Kardashians.
88.6 million Americans OWED taxes in 2008 (the last year I was able to find data on. This is in addition to the 42 million that received a tax refund. If you take the $35 million dollar request by DoE to support American research at CERN, you would find that it cost each of the people that had to pay in about 39.5 CENTS to support this research. You lose more that amount of money in your car seats each year.
here's a hint: it isn't a particle.
Here is another… it’s not a god ether…
/shiver
Religion is a bunch of hocus pocus nonsense. Praying is doing nothing about something. Science and religion are one big oxymoron. After 5,000 years of so-called civilizatoin, wouln't that make any intelligent and knowing god a great big underacheiver?
Pardon typos
Read the Bible if you want to find the "God Particle"
It's like a dangling particle and we haven't yet figured out why or where it dangles.
That's dangling participle.
religion
Reliigion + Quantum physics / contradiction = infinity
Um, I'm not an atheist, but you do realize, eventually, as you go further back in time, you will get to a point where God had to have spontaneously been formed from random particles, thus owing his (her? its?) existence to Physics. He had to come from somewhere.
yep ,so who made god , and then who made the one who made god , and so on and so on and so on ..........................religion is a joke
You are traping yourself in the deminsion of time, I would not do that if it was me. If God created all things he created time, space and all other deminsions. I would suspect that he would not be subjct to the laws he created. .................. sorta like being a US congressmen and being above (and exempt) from the laws you create and impose on everyone else.
Something cannot come from nothing. The more you try to disprove God the more you will realized that there is a God
Something can come from nothing because nothingness is unstable. I refer you to your first year course in quantum mechanics. You did takes that course, right?
As Sherman the shark said to his uber-intelligent alter ego from an alternate universe ... "I like pie"
2012 – the year the God particle was discovered... Mere seconds later Earth was swallowed up in the newly discovered black hole that was the direct result of the God particle.... Yay Humans!
Yay dumbed down pseudo-science.
Has anyone thought about this particle not entirely existing in this dimension? I believe quantum fluctuations may be transition particles that exist in a somewhat separate dimension. Gravitons may be similar. Why can't the Big Bang be a white hole that exists as black hole in our future...when space/time becomes non-relative in the singularity? In this senario time is cyclical and relative and it is 2-dimensional. String theory predicts multiple dimensions in sub Planck-length space. If this is true, a relative-time can exist within one of these and only interact with our time at the core of a black hole. Time is relative.
Not of your dead... Then anything goes and time means squat.
IF******
Actually, if time is cyclical then you may live again, and have lived forever. You may also be the same person typing this to yourself right now...as you are the person reading it.
You are all idiots. I was thrilled that CNN took space on their page to promote science, and an extremely significant discovery at that. What do you do with this news? Become another statistic for why Americans get called idiots by countries that actually care about science and engineering.
messi fu.. all what do you thinks about? aaa mother f.....
Science will never be able to explain the universe. I'm surprised they're still at it. Waist of time physics is...
And a waist (sic) of time in English education too.
Science already has. Take a physics course, or a chemistry course, or a biology course, or a cosmology course, or...
I'm no longer surprised at the number of ignorant people in this country; but how proud they are of it amazes me.
America is historically anti-intellectual. I would guess it comes from our puritanical origins.
Science will fly you to the Moon; religion will fly you into a building.
Do you understand that in the scientific community God has become a career killer.. If you believe in a creator , you will be laughed out of the loop..
so many who would say there is a God , will not..
Its like the "Oprah effect' in show business.. You go along with what she thinks..
In this case you go along with what the most notorious scientific mind thinks..
Take Hawking.. who , who values his career and his notoriety, is going to tell him he is wrong on the God "thing"..?
come on..People need to start "thinking" about these things.. Quiet letting career mindied people dictate..
Because many of those scientists DO actually believe there must have been intelligence behind this.. But will NOT admit it.. For fear of loosing all they have worked for...
@mary
Of course it’s a career killer. So is Big Foot, UFOs(Alien) and the Loch Ness monster. All of which have eye wittiness and more physical proof than we have for a ‘creator’. That doesn’t mean they are real or likely to be so.
>People need to start "thinking" about these things
I agree, but that’s only half the battle.. time to let the indoctrination go.
Science is great at finding what is already there..
And though I love the discoveries as much as anyone else..I still believe there was "creation" and at some point we are going to dig too deep.. And its going to reveal that we are getting stopped from going any further...
Its always amazed me that scientific discoveries which prove more and more how mysterious and complex the universe is..Seems to draw people farther from the belief in a creator.. It seems to me..All science is proving is 'complexity' which could not have been random.. Its like the more we know the more stubborn and stupid we become about the who of it .
All science proves in my opinion is that there is no way, it was random.. That there surely had to be intelligence behind the design..
So where then is your proof of a creator… or is this more hypocrisy?
'First there was nothing, then it exploded'...........
If the vastness of the universe and the complexity of life doesn't show you all the proof you need.. Then you have no power of deduction..
Its a simple thing for you .. You have the "show me" mentality..
?
Well its being shown to you daily.. These discoveries only prove there was no randomness to it..
Its insanity to believe this all just popped up one day..
@mary
Lol that old chestnut?
First the theory doesn’t go ‘'First there was nothing, then it exploded”
Secondly as you said yourself all that’s been proven is the complexity. That doesn’t mean anything on its own. You are interjecting your own ‘faith’ into it.
Lastly.. thank you for making my point… you profess to have knowledge of which you only have conjecture to support. As in no proof.
Logic fail. Thanks for playing.
Elizabeth Landau – Thanks for the article. Don't be jumping off any bridges after reading the some of the comments. We need more science articles.
From the article itself: Physicist Leon Lederman wrote a book called The God Particle. Seems to me that scientists came up with this term, not the media.
Goddammit.
Convenient how he left that part out eh?
Oh they finally read Lederman's "The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?" Should be required of them long ago...
So long and thanks for all the fish.
You are welcome, NOW get back Jojo...
I recently read the statement that the universe is a machine for creating gods. (Spiritual growth, reincarnation, etc.)
Are ye sure it wasn't " the university is a machine for creating gods." (Spiritual growth, reincarnation, etc.)
The "most sought after particle in physics" would be the next great discovery in science. Most every physicist is looking for it in some way or another. Since it is a race to be the first to find it, it is almost surely going to be found. Due to the notoriety to be gleaned from such a discovery, Particle physics may be in the difficult position of leaving skepticism, a valuable and necessary position in physics, almost completely up to the public. Not too long ago we found that scientists realized that there was 3X the number of stars they originally thought, "Making a huge mess out of everything." We also know that the universe is accelerating, not decelerating, another strange find in recent physics. Even if 'irrefutable evidence' is announced, it will take decades to "prove" the data, during which time we hope that it will be hotly debated. We hope that this version of a unified theory in PP (since the HB is supposed to help define mass and how other particles get their mass) will prove a battleground for debate, diction and the free exchange of ideas, and not devolve into a political argument like Global Warming.
Nicely said. . . but Al Gore has Global Warming solved but no one wants to get involved. People are like that at a train wreck. They rubber-neck but no way will they help clean-up the tracks or the aid the dying.
A lot of people are trying to solve the Static Theory at Neiman Marcus; free shipping throws everyone off kilter and they wind up buying things they don't need.
I'm in marketing, not Physics.
Oh, that silly layman. Am I right DannoB.S.?
"Thank you mando.. this is not about any god. Those people, in another time and place, would be condoning torture as spiritual cleansing. All over a book written by ancient politicians. I am highly spiritual, not ignorant." -GREAT COMMENT !!