The HIggs Boson has been found

http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/04/physicists-at-cern-confirm-discovery-of-elusive-higgs-particle-essential-to-understanding-the-universe/

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132274-cern-we-have-found-the-god-particle

Scientists at CERN believe that they have discovered a new particle which may be the elusive Higgs boson/god particle.

Swell.

That's nice.

Just read about it on CNN. Very interesting.

Just read about it on CNN. Very interesting.

DeadMan1290

The part that caught my attention the most:

"The announcements by the CERN researchers come two days after scientists in Illinois said they had crept closer to proving the existence of the Higgs boson but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.

The U.S.-based scientists outlined their final analysis based on more than 10 years of research and 500 trillion particle collisions using the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab Tevatron collider near Batavia, Illinois, whose budgetary woes shut it down last year.

They passed the baton onto their counterparts using the LHC, which is much more powerful than the Tevatron."

Wish I understood quantum physics for this to mean something to me. We need Carl Sagan to come back and popularize science again.Zeviander

U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab Tevatron collider near Batavia, IllinoisSuper-Mario-Fan

Irrelevant side note, I live about 10 minutes from that.

damn, was about to post this. :D very interesting stuff.

better not be the same mistake like the Speed of light is broken :P

I'm still skeptical. Maybe.

better not be the same mistake like the Speed of light is broken :P

punkpunker

my thoughts exactly

Wish I understood quantum physics for this to mean something to me. We need Carl Sagan to come back and popularize science again.Zeviander

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better not be the same mistake like the Speed of light is broken :P

RahXephon101

my thoughts exactly

very significant discovery and very exciting. They may now fully know how the universe was created and why it is the way it is.

I can hear religious people discounting it already though

I'm still skeptical. Maybe.

sonicare

They're still skeptical too, which is good. They need to repeat the experiment to get more data, before they really make it widely accept as the source of mass in the universe.

Now find out why quantum entanglement occurs.

Wish I understood quantum physics for this to mean something to me. We need Carl Sagan to come back and popularize science again.Zeviander