Higg Out
Posted on | March 25, 2008
In Geneva, they’re trying to find…everything:
Scientists at CERN, Europe’s atom-smashing laboratory, are preparing for the greatest experiment in the history of particle physics which could unveil a sub-atomic component, the Higgs Boson, which is so tantalising that it has been called “the God Particle”…
The “Higgs,” named after a British physicist, Peter Higgs, who first proposed it in 1964, would fill a gaping hole in the benchmark theory for understanding the physical cosmos.
Other work on the so-called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could explain dark matter and dark energy — strange phenomena that, stunned astrophysicists discovered a few years ago, account for 96 percent of the Universe.
It could shed clues on the mystery of how the Universe came to be.
And it may determine whether, as some physicists believe, space-time holds dimensions other than our own.
Far out, man.
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April 9th, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Peter Higgs told journalists in Geneva he doesn’t like the term “God particle” because it might offend believers — even though he is not one himself. More on the Reuters religion blog FaithWorld at http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/09/is-god-particle-the-right-term-for-massive-mystery-in-physics/