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Atheist Prof. Peter Higgs: Stop calling Higgs boson the ‘God particle’
Professor Peter Higgs said recently that there is no God and so people should stop referring to the theoretical partial that bears his name as the “God particle.” In an interview with BBC Scotland, the 83-year-old atheist scientist explained that it was “misleading” to suggest that the Higgs boson, a…
New data ‘strongly indicates’ particle is Higgs boson
New data unveiled on Thursday strengthens the belief that a subatomic particle discovered last year is the elusive Higgs boson, European physicists said. Analysis of two characteristics, teased from experiments at the world’s biggest particle smasher, aligns with theories that the discovery is a Higgs, the European Organisation for Nuclear…
Scientists: Last year’s discovery is looking ‘more and more’ like Higgs boson
The subatomic particle whose discovery was announced amid much fanfare last year, is looking “more and more” like it could indeed be the elusive Higgs boson, believed to explain why matter has mass, scientists said Wednesday. But in the latest update, physicists told a conference in La Thuile, Italy, that…
Higgs boson discovery makes 2012 a landmark year for physics
2012 will go down in history as a landmark year, when physicists discovered a fundamental particle that may answer one of the greatest riddles of all. Investigators believe their discovery to be the long-coveted Higgs Boson, an invisible particle that explains the mystery of mass. Without the Higgs, say theorists,…
Court rejects German woman’s claims Higgs boson experiment posed danger
A German woman who feared the Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole has failed in her court bid to stop the work of the world’s most powerful atom smasher. The higher administrative court in Muenster, western Germany, rejected her claims, ruling there was no evidence the…
What does the Higgs boson look like?
What does the Higgs boson look like? It’s a stupid question and I’m not going to answer it but bear with me. The evidence presented for the discovery earlier this summer was — to my untrained eye — a hump on a curve that had reached the magic threshold of five sigma…
Higgs Boson scientists map long-term global strategy for particle physics
Scientists who searched for the famous Higgs Boson concluded a three-day brainstorming session on Wednesday for mapping a long-term global strategy for particle physics. The conference in Krakow, Poland, follows the July 4 announcement of the discovery of a new particle consistent with the elusive boson, which is believed to…
Landmark Higgs boson announcement clears key formal hurdle
The announcement two months ago that physicists have discovered a particle consistent with the famous Higgs boson cleared a formal hurdle on Monday with publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Two laboratories working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had jointly announced on July 4 they had detected a…
Shy physicist whose name lives on in Higgs boson
Forty-eight years ago, British scientist Peter Higgs had a eureka moment when he realised there could be a particle that confers mass, one of the greatest puzzles in physics. “He said: ‘Oh shit, I know how to do that!’” former colleague Alan Walker told AFP of the breakthrough as recounted…
Higgs-like particle found in ‘milestone’ for mankind
After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the elusive Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass. Rousing cheers and a standing ovation erupted at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) after scientists presented astonishing…
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