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The theoretical particle, nicknamed the God Particle due to its central role it has in explaining modern physics, has never been detected and scientists have been working for decades to prove its existence.
Scientists hope that high energy collisions of particles in the 17 mile underground tunnel at CERN will finally allow them to create the conditions to allow them to spot the elusive Higgs Boson.
Dr Heuer, who was speaking at the Hay Festival, said the LHC is scheduled to be closed down at the end of this year for up to two years in order to carry out upgrades that will increase its po
Rumours that scientists working on the LHC had found evidence of the Higgs boson began to circulate after an supposed internal memo was posted on the internet.
The memo, written by four scientists working on the LHC's ATLAS experiment, warned the rate at which this happened was thirty times larger than would have been expected.
But it added: “The present result is the first definitive observation of physics beyond the standard model.
“Exciting new physics, including new particles, may be expected to be found in the very near future.”
www.telegraph.co.uk...
post by Jordan River
Meaning, what? They are holding there secrets? why? Besides money
It amazes me that they can get funding for such a huge machine in the first place, its almost 10 billion dollars so far if you believe Wiki
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Thats rather a bold statement to make. I guess he's basing his predictions on the assumptions that
A. such a particle exists.
B. they have the right equipment to find it.
C. they haven't over looked it already.
It amazes me that they can get funding for such a huge machine in the first place, its almost 10 billion dollars so far if you believe Wiki
But will finding the Higgs Boson improve the lives of the majority of the people on the planet, cure hunger or save lives?
The Higgs Boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Its existence is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in the Standard Model. Experiments attempting to find the particle are currently being performed using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and were performed at Fermilab's Tevatron until Tevatron's closure in late 2011. On 12 December 2011, the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC found that a Higgs mass in the range from 145 to 206 GeV was excluded at the 95% confidence level. Theories that do not need the Higgs boson also exist and would be considered if the existence of the Higgs Boson was ruled out. They are described as Higgsless models. The theory proposed in this webpage is one of these Higgsless Models.