LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God

[YankeyMCC]

"A UK bookmaker has lowered the odds on proving that god exists to just 4-1 to coincide with the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider. The chance that physicists might discover the elusive sub-atomic object called the "God particle" has forced the odds lower. Initially the odds that proof would be found of God's existence were 20-1, and they lengthened to 33-1 when the multi-billion pound atom smasher was shut down temporarily because of a magnetic failure. A spokesman for Paddy Power said, "The atheists' planned advertising campaign seems to have renewed the debate in pubs and around office water-coolers as to whether there is a God and we've seen some of that being transferred into bets. However we advise anyone still not sure of God's existence to maybe hedge their bets for now, just in case." He added that confirmation of God's existence would have to be verified by scientists and given by an independent authority before any payouts were made. Everyone getting a payout is encouraged to tithe at least ten percent."

http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/05/1516236&from=rss

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There is just to much to say I can't even bring myself to pick one aspect to comment.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. I, for one, bow down before our new particle overlord.

All hail the Mighty Speck!

[TZ]

2. Okay can someone enlighten physics challenged me

about this "god particle" thing. I've heard of it before, but I don't understand how finding a subparticle or whatever will be proof of god?

[enki23]

3. i'm not a physicist either, but, essentialy...

this is all about one grandiose schmuck who wanted to sell books. it's called a "higgs boson" by anyone who isn't a moron, and it doesn't have a damned thing to do with the "existence of god". it has a lot more to do with the existence of mass.