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WATCH: The Higgs boson announcement

The announcement is on its way from CERN….

Image: CERN

SCIENTISTS AT CERN are preparing to make an announcement about the Higgs boson aka the God particle this morning… or are they?

The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle which has been predicted to exist, but has never actually been observed. One Nobel laureate in physics has said that finding the Higgs boson would tie up a loose end of the so-called standard model of physics, which requires a Higgs-like particle to exist.

Watch the announcement live: (If you can’t see the video you can watch here)

So what’s happening with the Higgs boson this morning?

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Comments (26 Comments)

  • Ladies and gentlemen…we got him.

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  • Should we expect package holidays to Pandorra so ?

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  • we have discovered time travel full report will be issued in last weeks news.

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  • Isn’t this how Half Life started……

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  • Absolutely brilliant news! Well done to all involved!!

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  • That’s mad Ted.

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  • What are we going to do with it ?

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  • 1.21 gigawatts

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  • “What’s the matter with Mass?”, Father Ryan would ask whilst looking for God.

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  • Well if God is a only a particle, kinda makes all those religions insignificant & irrelevant. Pity they didn’t find this out 2000 years ago…Would have saved the world a lot of grief and misery…!!!!

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    • The Higgs boson was referred to as the ‘God Particle’ in a literary piece only and most physicists don’t really like that name. It refers to how important the Higgs boson is but how very elusive and difficult it is to prove, like God, and also to a lot of these particle physicists, trying desperately to find it, one could say it’s there version of searching for God. So, it was called the ‘God Particle’. Still a smart name in my opinion but by no means a scientific version of God.

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    • The God particle is a nick name, it doesn’t prove God. But if it did, then surely it would prove that those religions were onto something.

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    • They have proved that Religions are based on a particle. No fire & Brimstone, no
      preaching one thing while doing another. It’s all down to an atom sized
      particle.
      We could have been a harmonious society, but it was not to be. Religion had to repress people by way of fear…!!!

      Well thats finally been shown up for what it is based on. this was what all the fuss was about. One bleedin’ particle…!!!

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    • mattoid 04/07/12 #

      ‘god’ is actually an informal abbreviation of ‘goddamn’ as it was originally (and mischievously) dubbed, because it was so hard to find…

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    • Better to remain silent and thought the fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.. Peed off, take heed of that quote please. You are talking absolute ráiméis. This is a huge breakthrough without a doubt, but, there will be no newspaper headlines saying ‘Higgs boson disproves world religions!’. And I’m not an apologist for religion but if you want to disprove something then get real evidence.

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  • The Progressive Science of Wavevolution reveals the existence of One God as it was not possible until now for Religions and traditional science.
    Wavevolution shows how the energy movement in atoms and in waves is identical.
    Thus, the Creation is revealed by one same movement.
    We can now define this behavior as One Law, or One Direction or also One Will since It remains unchanged from the beginning.
    The source of attraction between two opposite and complementary elements is the same Law or Will that provides for the existence of One Order in the Universe.
    All forms of energy in the Universe are orchestrated by a constant rearrangement of their magnetic fields as if they were the many pawns moving mechanically in One eternal Chess Game played by the same Hand.
    The discovery of the existence of One Universal Law and One Order in the Universe that had one beginning (at the Time of the Big Bang) not caused by Humankind confirm as a consequence the existence of One Creator.
    Erroneously, traditional science explains that all energy existing in the Universe converged in One Point (with its own Space) about 14 billion years ago.
    Moreover, the same science indicates that from the energy of this Single Point (already composed also by atoms) the whole Universe was created.
    This theory is without foundation and destined to remain inconclusive. The contradictions originate from Einstein’s faulty conclusions and from the reverence shown by the modern scientists afraid to take a new stand that may not be “aligned” with the thought of the late scientist.
    Einstein believed that the Universe was like one closed Space and that one fixed number of atoms had always existed, hence not constantly transformed from waves. The Jewish scientist believed that Space was independent from the concept of Time and in regard he may had been misled by that word “Makom” used in the Bible to define without distinction God and also Space. “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” (Jeremiah 23:24). From here is the doctrine of the Omnipresence and also in this passage, the Bible generates misleading confusion.
    Nevertheless,
    All spaces are divisible and at least Two Points are always needed for the coordinates of any one Space. In fact, we could forever split in two any one Space with one Movement occurring in one Time.
    There are no Time and Movement if there is no Space.
    There are no Movement and Space without Time.
    There are no Space and Time without Movement.
    But if one of the three exists also the other two exist.
    If the Creation started from One Point with Its own Space existing prior to the Big Bang that same Point could not be the beginning of Time and Creator of All things. One Space prior to the Big Bang necessarily implies also the presence of one Time prior to that same explosion.
    Furthermore, one indivisible Point could not exist anyhow.
    In fact, the smallest Space could only be a sphere and even if the original Point of Energy (prior to the Big Bang) was infinitely small it could not have been a sphere. The sphere has a perimeter at the diameter but also smaller perimeters as we move upward or downward from the larger diameter. The concept of “infinitely small” precludes the possibility of smaller perimeters.
    The unimaginable Point, infinitely small (smaller than a sphere) and indivisible, if exploded would have spread its energy at once. The lack of Space in the indivisible Point infinitely small eliminates the possibility of Time and Movement for the Creation of the Universe.
    While instead the Universe is created in Time.
    http://www.wavevolution.org

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  • How is proof of it’s existence going to further the cause of humanity? 5 +billion spent on proving what exactly? Will there useful spin offs to this discovery? ? questions must be asked!

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    • There will be. Understanding the mechanics of the universe will open up new technological frontiers in everything from communications and computing, to healthcare and even interstellar travel.

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    • Interstellar travel assisted by proving the existence of the Higgs Boson?

      This discovery gives some validity to some assumptions we already had about the universe. It is not new physics, it is empirical observation of something which was already included in the standard model.

      This is very important work, and will provide solid assumptions for new pieces of research. New physics may come of it, but this isn’t new physics in and of itself.

      Realistically, this is not a discovery. LHC was an experiment to verify something they were pretty confident of.

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    • What I actually said was that understanding the mechanics of the universe will lead to these things. Understanding the mechanics of the universe will, I believe, one day way in the future to interstellar travel. The point I was making was that this is an important discovery that is a step on the road to who knows where.

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    • Ah no, I get that.

      But my point was this isn’t a discovery. They’d mathematically deduced that something was needed in this space. Now they’ve just show it was there. There’s nothing new in it, they’ve just proven a theory.

      Interstellar travel is likely to come about by plain old propulsion, and will be painfull slow. This is not the first step in a quest for warp speed. If we can’t accelerate a neutrino beyond light speed, we won’t be riding a wave of Higgs Bosons to the stars any time soon.

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    • Fair enough. They’ll figure out a way to get past (or around) the old speed of light thing one day though. Long, long after we’re all dead and gone.

      I wish I had the kind of genius to fully understand high end physics. Can you imagine the kind of intellect required to mathematically deduce a particle must exist 50 or 60 years before we are technologically able to back it up.

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