Its formal term is the Higgs boson and today the company CERN will present an update on their search for the Higgs Boson to delegates at a Geneva Conference.
Theoretically the particle is the missing link in the standard model of physics and it is thought it is what gives object mass, although so far no Scientists have been able to comprehensively prove this.
This innovative research is being carried out with their atom-smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, situated near Geneva on the French / Swiss border. It fires streams of protons in opposite, but parallel directions in the tunnel. The beams are then bent by strong magnets so that some of the protons collide in four huge labs, which are lined with detectors to record the sub-atomic debris that results.
Previously Scientists were getting positive hints in the data of something present, however they were not conclusive enough to say it was a discovery or not. Today the scientific world will get another update. Have they discovered the ‘God Particle’?
Good article but most snticiests wish the God Particle thing could be dropped by now. Even the scientist Leon Lederman who coined the phrase for a book has joked that the publisher wouldn’t allow him to call it the goddamn particle.Great as the discovery of Higgs is, some snticiests feel the GP moniker over-hypes it. One article listed those things the Higgs will not be explaining: It doesn’t explain how gravity works. For that matter, it doesn’t really tell us much about how the strong force relates to the electroweak force — the combination of electromagnetism and the weak force for which the Higgs is so useful. It doesn’t tell us what dark matter is — roughly 23% of the energy of the universe. It doesn’t tell us what dark energy is — another 72% of the universe. It doesn’t tell us why the electric charge is what it is, or an electron mass is what it is, or really, much at all about a huge number of physical constant. It doesn’t explain why we have certain symmetries in our universe and not others.And of course there will be those who will misinterpret the whole thing, and silly arguments about creationism will rear their tedious heads for another go-around.