Thanks for this. On 8/26/11, sadovnik socratus <is.socra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 'God particle' out of hiding places: CERN chief > August 25th, 2011 in Physics / General Physics > Enlarge > The director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research > (CERN), Rolf-Dieter Heuer, addresses a news conference at the Tata > Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai on August 25. Heuer > said the the elusive Higgs Boson, known as the "God particle", was -- > if it exists -- running out of places to hide. > The elusive Higgs Boson, known as the "God particle", is -- if it > exists -- running out of places to hide, the head of the mammoth > experiment designed to find it said on Thursday. > "The window for the famous Higgs Boson... is getting smaller and > smaller," Professor Rolf Heuer, director-general of the European > Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), told a news conference in > Mumbai, where the agency presented its latest data in the quest. > The Higgs Boson is a theoretical sub-atomic particle that is believed > to confer mass. It is named after a British scientist who suggested > its existence in the 1960s. > It has been dubbed the "God particle" because it is thought to be > everywhere, but it has also proved agonisingly hard to find. > Scientists at CERN are trying to determine its existence in the > world's largest particle collider, located in a tunnel deep below the > Franco-Swiss border, and believe they can come up with an answer by > the end of 2012. > Heuer said the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was working well but > finding evidence of the enigmatic particle was difficult because they > were looking at the lowest levels of mass, the last place where it may > -- or may not -- lurk. > He likened the search to trying to find a snowy field during a > blizzard, while Pier Oddone, director of the US Department of Energy's > Fermilab, said it was like looking for stars in daylight. > "It's the hardest region because of the background... It's more > difficult to see what's going on," Oddone said. > On Monday, CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci said experiments > had excluded with 95 percent certainty the existence of the Higgs > boson at higher levels of mass. > The 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) Large Hadron Collider is designed to > accelerate protons to nearly the speed of light and then smash them > together where detectors in house-sized laboratories record the > seething, sub-atomic debris. > The collisions briefly create temperatures 100,000 times hotter than > the Sun, fleetingly replicating conditions split-seconds after the > "Big Bang" that created the known universe 13.7 billion years ago. > The Higgs Boson is the missing cornerstone of the well-tested Standard > Model of particle physics, a theory which explains how known sub- > atomic particles in the universe interact. > Professor Rohini Godbole, particle theorist at the Centre for High > Energy Physics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, said > the Standard Model had been put together like a house of cards over > the last 70 years. > "We're trying to put together the last two cards," she added. "If the > Higgs Boson is found, the two cards meet. If it's not... the house of > cards is going to fall down." > Godbole said she was confident of a discovery. > "All that so far has been tested, whatever we have been predicting, > has been found to be true," she said. > (c) 2011 AFP > "'God particle' out of hiding places: CERN chief." August 25th, 2011. > http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-god-particle-cern-chief.html > Posted by > Robert Karl Stonjek > ===========. > # > God particle may not exist. > Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 13:13 GMT > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1695390.stm > # > - The mad CERN’s way. > 14 Sep 2008 16:14 GMT > by Israel Sadovnik Socratus > http://www.spacekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/astronomy/13338/The-mad-CERN-s-project > ====.. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Epistemology" group. > To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. > >
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