Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

[The Straight Story]

GENEVA — Physicists said Thursday they are now confident they have discovered a crucial subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson – a major discovery that will go a long ways toward helping them explain why the universe is the way it is.

They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle."

Joe Incandela, who heads one of the two main teams at CERN that each involve several thousand scientists, said in a statement that "it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is."

The long-theorized subatomic particle would explain why matter has mass and has been considered a missing cornerstone of physics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130314/eu-switzerland-god-particle/?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=green

Note: Like some other stories I have posted in the past this one also appears on fox news and some rw sites as well. I do not have an agenda in posting this article. Since it is also posted on other, rw, sites some may believe it is all fake and not real. I post, you decide

Thought I would get that out of the way so people who complain about such things can actually focus on commenting on the article itself for a change.

[MADem]

1. Here's a Reuters source--that might quiet 'em down.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE9270XW20130314

(Reuters) - Analysis of the tracks of an elementary particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs boson, the CERN physics research center said on Thursday.

But a statement on the latest findings from huge volumes of data gathered during three years of collisions in the LHC stopped short of claiming the boson, believed to be the particle that gives matter to mass, had been discovered for sure.

Measurement of the behavior of the particle, whose existence was first postulated in the early 1960s, and of its interaction with other particles "strongly indicates that it is the Higgs boson", CERN said.

The statement came after a presentation of the latest findings by CMS, one of two teams working on Higgs, at a physics conference in the Italian Alps, south of Geneva where CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - is located.

"The preliminary results with the full set of 2012 data are magnificent...

I once knew a bo'sun named Higgs...but that's not quite the same!

[EOTE]

2. God particle?!? How offensive! Don't you know many of us don't believe in God?

Why not the Dawkins particle? Or the Darwin particle? And why does energy have to give way to mass? What did energy ever do to mass to deserve such treatment? As a Pastafarian, I'm still awaiting the discovery of the Orzo particle, which gives pasta its tastiness and is formed when marinara congeals.

[The Straight Story]

3. And same time as we get a new pope too...makes me wonder

Not sure what I am wondering but it makes me wonder :

[pinboy3niner]

5. The God particle works in mysterious ways

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

[n2doc]

6. Here's a link to a phys.org article

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-confident-cern-physicists-higgs-boson.html

[MattBaggins]

7. But but but...that's just calcified scientific materialism reductionist blah blah