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'God particle' announcement expected

How "original", there is stupidity particle spreading all over the world since 622~
The name of that particle may offend 1.6 billion members of the planet..
How abominable of someone to resort to personal attacks on a particular religion. Yet, it is the way of those who prefer nonsense to the truth.
The fool doth think himself wise but the wise know otherwise
 
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U are trying to give all developments a conspiracy twist when there isn't. The sequence of claims and counterclaims all were peer reviewed. One guy ( hatching a conspiracy/ some unforeseen reason) made a mistake in calculation and based on that made a claim. It was their peers only who disproved it within a week or so. So no one is trying to fool around. Everything is proved in front a peer review panel.


WTF u must be out of mind I just spoke the truth and YOU tinted it with conspiracy . Y U NO USE UR TOP FLOOR.
 
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"India is like a historic father of the project," said Paolo Giubellino, spokesperson of Geneva-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research, famously known as CERN.
 
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Indian, Israeli, Pakistani scientists and others from many countries and observer states, your assistance will be noted. :D

At last, a European project triumphs

MY TAKE
Alex Lo
Jul 05, 2012

Amid all the doom and gloom about the possible break-up of the euro zone, another grand European project which has time and again been threatened with failure has delivered. Many of the world's finest physicists at Cern have, by using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), found what is likely to be the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle needed to complete the standard model of physics. For now, they are calling it a Higgs-like particle. If it deviates from the standard model, scientists say it would be even more exciting as that would open new possibilities. But either way, a crucial step has been taken to explain how the universe came into being, why some particles have mass and others have little or no mass. The Higgs boson has been dubbed the "God particle", though with such a powerful theory we may not need a Creator to explain the origin of matter and the universe.
There is no single hero or nation to claim credit, though Peter Higgs, the British scientist after whom the particle is named, surely deserves much of the limelight. A multinational project, the hunt for the Higgs boson has been a primary goal for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern. This great European experiment has been open to contributions by scientists from around the world. Americans could have claimed this Holy Grail of physics for themselves. Indeed, analysing data from their defunct particle accelerator, scientists at the Fermilab near Chicago say they have seen tantalising hints of the particle. But they probably missed their best chance when the US Congress killed funding for the Superconducting Super Collider - designed to be several times more powerful than the LHC - in the early 1990s. With this as background, US writer Herman Wouk wrote a highly amusing novel called A Hole in Texas. Its premise was that the Chinese, with the rise of their nation and science, end up discovering the Higgs boson. In reality, the Americans did not have the money and the Chinese did not have the research infrastructure to claim the prize.

Now it's the highly collaborative Europeans who have delivered. If only Europe's politicians can do the same!

Latest News Columns & Insight from Hong Kong & China | SCMP.com

Higgs boson's many great minds cause a Nobel prize headache

With Nobel prizes traditionally going to a maximum of three people, rows over who deserves credit have already broken out

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Physicist Peter Higgs (right) and François Englert at Cern during a press conference to announce the probable discovery of the Higgs boson. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

It's good news for physicists, but one dreadful headache for the Nobel committee. The discovery – or near discovery – of the Higgs boson, will see someone win a Nobel prize, but who deserves credit for the work is a minefield.

Traditionally, the science Nobel prizes are given to a maximum of three people, whose contributions are judged to be the most important. The rule is archaic, in that it harks back to a time when much of science was done by individuals or smaller groups.

Two teams of scientists at Cern, amounting to thousands of people, carried out the painstaking work of spotting traces of the particle amid the subatomic debris of more than a thousand trillion collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider. All deserve credit for that effort.

But this is the least of the Nobel committee's problems. The prize is more likely to go to theoretical physicists who worked on the theory of particle masses almost 50 years ago. Here the parentage becomes more muddled.

Six physicists published the theory within four months of each other in 1964. They built on the work of others.

The first to publish, that August, were Robert Brout and François Englert at the Free University of Brussels. Brout died in 2011, and the award cannot be given posthumously.

Second to publish was Peter Higgs, with two papers on the theory in September and October 1964. In his second paper, he became the first to mention explicitly that the theory demanded a new particle in nature, which was given the name Higgs boson in 1972. Drawing attention to the particle was crucial, because it gave scientists something concrete to hunt.

Third to publish was a group of three theorists, including two US researchers, Dick Hagen and Gerry Guralnik, and a British physicist, Tom Kibble. Their work was published in November.

All three teams worked independently.

So there are at least five living physicists who can lay claim to the Nobel prize. If the particle discovered at Cern is confirmed to be the Higgs boson, then Higgs is certain to be honoured. That leaves four physicists competing for two places. Englert published first, and would be hard to dismiss. That leaves one place left.

Rows over who deserves credit have already broken out. In 2010, the US physicists complained when the organisers of a conference in Paris on the Higgs particle credited only Higgs, Englert and Brout for the theory. Guralnik and Hagen believe some European physicists are trying to write them out of history. The argument against them is that while their work was independent, they still published last.

The quandary raises a familiar issue for the Nobel committee. Restricting those honoured with a Nobel helps maintain their prestige. But in modern science, few discoveries are born in final form from so few parents.

Higgs boson's many great minds cause a Nobel prize headache | Science | guardian.co.uk
 
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can somebody explain in simple words what this actually means?

I did understand it but still clarification will be highly appreciated
 
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can somebody explain in simple words what this actually means?

I did understand it but still clarification will be highly appreciated
Simplest terms? Hmmmmmm...... Think of it this way, whenever god/nature creates anything... I mean anything... he/she creates JUST ONE HIGS-BOSON and then.... every thing else from the greater soup of things sticks to it, around it and forms an object / life / planet / galaxy / universe.

Think of it as a magnetic soul of 'all that is' :)

So, let it be = -- Boson Zakii ++
 
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So now onward , we don't need to wash/clean clothes..

Just use Higgs Boson, and create new clothes every morning or when you need them :D
 
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So now onward , we don't need to wash/clean clothes..

Just use Higgs Boson, and create new clothes every morning or when you need them :D
Only if..... why think so small? Think big....bigger...... :D
 
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can somebody explain in simple words what this actually means?

I did understand it but still clarification will be highly appreciated

In what I understand

there are two types of fundamental particles ones with mass and others without mass

The ones without mass travel at the speed of light like photons, ideally the others should not have mass too except for the thing called Higgs Field which consists of Higgs Bosons(They decay very fast and hence all this time we were unable to observe it).. If the so called Higgs boson did not exists then we could not answer why material has mass and gravity..

hope it helped :P
 
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I'm so sure the first application will be some f*****g weapon!

In what I understand

there are two types of fundamental particles ones with mass and others without mass

The ones without mass travel at the speed of light like photons, ideally the others should not have mass too except for the thing called Higgs Field which consists of Higgs Bosons(They decay very fast and hence all this time we were unable to observe it).. If the so called Higgs boson did not exists then we could not answer why material has mass and gravity..

hope it helped :P
Layman's terms mate... Layamn's terms! :)
 
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I'm so sure the first application will be some f*****g weapon!

Well that is how things always seem to work, we'll just have to wait for some country to roll out some weapon relating with it.
 
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I'm so sure the first application will be some f*****g weapon!


Layman's terms mate... Layamn's terms! :)
I do not think it will be weapons, they are not even sure if it is exactly the Boson they were looking for.. Yeah man that's how I understood it being a layman :)
 
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Well that is how things always seem to work, we'll just have to wait for some country to roll out some weapon relating with it.
Once they pinpoint the exact spectrum where it is located, they're going to create a weapon to pinpoint at it and whack it out of space time.... Imagine planet killers!

I do not think it will be weapons, they are not even sure if it is exactly the Boson they were looking for.. Yeah man that's how I understood it being a layman :)
If they do. Then.
 
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