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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-04-12 03:48 AM
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Scientists identify the so-called "God particle?'
AP Top News at 4:25 a.m. EDT

Physicists find evidence of new subatomic particle

GENEVA (AP) - Two independent teams at the world's biggest atom smasher say they have both "observed" a new subatomic particle - a boson - that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. The stopped just shy of claiming Wednesday that the particle is the long-sought Higgs boson, known popularly as the "God particle.

The stopped just shy of claiming Wednesday that the particle is the long-sought Higgs boson, known popularly as the "God particle."


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWITZERLAND_GOD_PARTICLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-04-04-22-27


Singing "Boson Bless America?" or "Boson bless the USA?"

Anyway, happy Fourth!
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-04-12 09:51 AM
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1. Link to longer article from AP.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWITZERLAND_GOD_PARTICLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-04-07-06-27

Praise Boson.

I can't wait until Sheldon and Leonard explain this during the Big Bang Theory's next season.
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dtexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-06-12 11:11 AM
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2. If they wanted to find a bosun, they should have gone to a shipyard,
not way up in the Alps somewhere. ;-)
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