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MMC
03-07-2012, 08:08 AM
US-based physicists said Wednesday that their experiments confirm those from a major European atom-smasher's that have narrowed the range where the elusive Higgs boson particle could be hiding.

The results come from the now-defunct Tevatron collider, which closed down in September after nearly a quarter century, though physicists continue to analyze its data in the hunt for the so-called "God particle."

The Higgs boson is the missing link in the standard model of physics and is believed to be what gives objects mass, though scientists have never been able to pin it down and it exists only in theory.....snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/us-physicists-confirm-higgs-finding-near-095411592.html

Whatcha think? Even thought this is shut down.

Conley
03-07-2012, 09:12 AM
Amazing stuff but it seems they've been close to discovering the particle for a long time now. At this point it seems like it will be up to the Europeans at CERN, this is just another field where we've lost our lead.

MMC
03-07-2012, 09:50 AM
Looks like those donations are drying up. Plus no more grants from the Fed. So the research will have to come from some other place. Although I don't think the Europeans have any probleming taking it from here.

Conley
03-07-2012, 12:18 PM
The Europeans and the Chinese are moving ahead, no doubt.

Captain Obvious
03-07-2012, 07:36 PM
Yeah, that's been the position on the particle for a while now.

They also prematurely published the discovery of a particle that moves faster than the speed of light. This is the same shit that gets the global warming crowd in trouble.