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DAVOS, Switzerland — The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, the head of the world’s largest atom smasher said Saturday
Rolf Heuer, director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said he is confident that “towards the middle of the year, we will be there.” By then, he said reams of data from the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border near Geneva should have been assessed
The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle predicted almost 50 years ago to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. In 2012 a previously unknown boson was discovered; its properties are still being studied in 2013 to confirm whether or not it is the Higgs boson.[6][7] Proof that the Higgs boson exists would be monumental[8][9] since it would finally prove the existence of the Higgs field,[10][11] the Standard Model's explanation of why some fundamental particles have mass when 'naive' theory says they should be massless, and - linked to this - why the weak force has a much shorter range than the electromagnetic force. Its discovery would validate the final unconfirmed part of the Standard Model, guide other theories and discoveries in particle physics, and – as with other fundamental discoveries of the past – potentially over time lead to developments in "new" physics,[12] and new technology
Originally posted by TheProphetMark
Forgive my ignorance but can somebody explain in laymen's term what Higgs Boson is really all about and what it means please. Thank you.edit on 26-1-2013 by TheProphetMark because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by samuel1990
Yeah I thought it was confirmed last year?
Originally posted by digital01anarchy
reply to post by goou111
CERN does this everytime they run out of funding lol you can expect them to find it next year and the next and the next lol
Originally posted by TheProphetMark
Forgive my ignorance but can somebody explain in laymen's term what Higgs Boson is really all about and what it means please. Thank you.
Originally posted by digital01anarchy
reply to post by goou111
CERN does this everytime they run out of funding lol you can expect them to find it next year and the next and the next lol
Originally posted by goou111
reply to post by digital01anarchy
I bet they run out funding fast at $10billion
Originally posted by goou111
reply to post by buddhasystem
dang did someone p**s in your corrnflakes?
Originally posted by digital01anarchy
reply to post by goou111
CERN does this everytime they run out of funding lol you can expect them to find it next year and the next and the next lol