| archmage | Date: Sunday, 24-April-2011, 10:41 PM | Message # 1 |
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A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle."
The controversial rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic, or what the data it refers to might mean — but the note already has researchers talking.
The buzz started when an anonymous commenter recently posted an abstract of the note on Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit's blog http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3643
Full article/source - http://www.livescience.com/13853-higgs-boson-signal-lhc-cern.html
Message edited by sanju - Sunday, 24-April-2011, 10:43 PM |
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