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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: walkstall on December 13, 2011, 12:38:23 PM

Title: Have you been following this?
Post by: walkstall on December 13, 2011, 12:38:23 PM
Very interesting.....

Scientists narrow hunt for 'God' particle.

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The latest data show that the mass of the Higgs boson — popularly referred to as the "God particle" — probably falls in the lower end of the spectrum of mass that can be produced by smashing protons together in the huge Large Hadron Collider (http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Large+Hadron+Collider), researchers from two independent teams said Tuesday.
The two teams said their data indicates the particle itself may have a mass of between roughly 114 and 130 billion electron volts. One billion electron volts is roughly the mass of a proton. The most likely mass of the Higgs boson is around 124 to 126 billion electron volts, the teams said.

more @
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/story/2011-12-13/god-particle-higgs-boson/51869786/1?csp=hf (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/story/2011-12-13/god-particle-higgs-boson/51869786/1?csp=hf)