Fw: Re: Physicists believe they have discovered the Higgs Boson Particle

This is a post of mine on another group.  John W.


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>It is also called the "God particle", but unconnected with the Pope. Would you like one for show on your apartment window-sill? 
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> It is named after Peter Higgs (b. 29 May 1929), an English physicist who predicted its existence about 50 years ago and who is still alive, and Satyendra Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974), an Indian physicist who discovered the class of particles called bosons. 
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>See also: 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/physicists-see-higgs-boson-in-new-particle-but-more-study-is-needed.html
>http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/physicists-found-higgs-boson-18726739
>http://www.nydailynews..com/news/world/physicists-discovered-higgs-boson-article-1.1288210
>http://news.yahoo.com/physicists-look-future-higgs-announcement-181942009.html
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
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>John W.
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>----- Forwarded Message -----
>>From: Greg Dempsey <[email protected]>
>>To: Greg dempsey <[email protected]> 
>>Sent: Friday, 15 March 2013 10:20 AM
>>Subject: *? 2 ALL: PHYSICISTS BELIEVE THEY HAVE DISCOVERED THE  HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
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>>Atom-smashing: scientists are confident that they have discovered the long sought after 
>>Higgs 
boson, known as the “God particle”, which holds the physical fabric of 
the universe
>>together. Photo: CERN - CNN | Video at http://tinyurl.com/cfon4ts
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>>Hi 
Team!
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>>*? 2 ALL: 
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>>PHYSICISTS BELIEVE 
THEY HAVE DISCOVERED THE HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE - 
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>>A proton-proton collision 
produced in the Large Hadron Collider shows characteristics 
>>in line with the decay of a Higgs boson particle. - 
CNN 
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>>John Heilprin reports:
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>>"The search is all but over for a 
subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the 
universe.
>> "Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have 
discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago, which 
will go a long way toward explaining what gives electrons and all matter in the 
universe size and shape.
>>"The elusive particle, called a Higgs boson, was predicted 
in 1964 to help fill in our understanding of the creation of the universe, which 
many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang. The 
particle was named for Peter Higgs, one of the physicists who proposed its 
existence, but it later became popularly known as the 'God particle.'
>>"Last July, scientists at CERN, the Geneva-based European 
Organization for Nuclear Research, announced finding a particle they described 
as Higgs-like, but they stopped short of saying conclusively that it was the 
same particle or some version of it.
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>>(above): 
Joe Incandela
>>"Scientists have now finished going through the entire set 
of data year and announced the results in a statement and at a physics 
conference in the Italian Alps.
>>"'To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs 
boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it 
is,' said Joe Incandela, a physicist who heads one of the two main teams at CERN 
that each involve about 3,000 scientists.
>>"Its existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain 
their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with a key 
particle, the Higgs boson. The more they attract, the theory goes, the bigger 
their mass will be."
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>>Physicists believe they have discovered 
Higgs boson particle - what are your comments?
>>Greg Dempsey 
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
>>Voice of the 
People
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>>Higgs 
Boson Discovery Confirmed After Physicists Review Large Hadron Collider Data At 
CERN 
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>>By JOHN HEILPRIN 03/14/13 11:42 AM ET EDT  Associated Press
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>>GENEVA -- 
...But, it 
remains an "open question," CERN said in a statement, whether this is the Higgs 
boson that was expected in the original formulation, or possibly the lightest of 
several predicted in some theories that go beyond that 
model.
>>But for now, it said, 
there can be little doubt that a Higgs boson does exist, in some 
form.
>>Whether or not it is a 
Higgs boson is demonstrated by how it interacts with other particles and its 
quantum properties, CERN said in the statement. The data "strongly indicates 
that it is a Higgs boson," it said.
>>The discovery would be a 
strong contender for the Nobel Prize, though it remains unclear whether that 
might go to Higgs and the others who first proposed the theory or to the 
thousands of scientists who found it, or to all of them.
>>The hunt for the Higgs 
entailed the use of CERN's atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, which cost 
some $10 billion to build and run in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel beneath the 
Swiss-French border.
>>It has been creating 
high-energy collisions to smash protons and then study the collisions and 
determine how subatomic particles acquire mass – without which the particles 
would fail to stick 
together.
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