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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 14, 2013, 12:51:37 pm
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130314/DA50QHOG1.html (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130314/DA50QHOG1.html)
Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson
Mar 14, 6:39 AM (ET)
By JOHN HEILPRIN
GENEVA (AP) - Physicists said Thursday they are now confident they have discovered a crucial subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson - a major discovery that will go a long ways toward helping them explain why the universe is the way it is.
They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle."
Joe Incandela, who heads one of the two main teams at CERN that each involve several thousand scientists, said in a statement that "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."
The long-theorized subatomic particle would explain why matter has mass and has been considered a missing cornerstone of physics.
Last July, scientists with the world's largest atom-smasher announced finding a particle they described as Higgs-like.
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Two things have me very sour on modern day scientists.
1 - The way many of them will gleefully support AGW, without hard evidence, in order to keep funding coming in. They will often ignore contradictory evidence to keep on the politically correct side of AGW.
2 - The way NASA just laid down. There are no alarms, no warnings, no anything from NASA. NASA has watched it's primary mission be replaced with AGW cheerleading, and muslim outreach, and not even flinched.
Based on those two observations, I find modern science to be less than pure.
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Things will get mighty interesting if they've really found this sucker