'God particle' soon to be revealed says physicist

by Rich Bowden - Apr 9 2008, 04:05

A sub-atomic particle, known as the "God particle" will be revealed when the giant particle collider at the CERN research center on the border of France and Switzerland goes into full operation next year, says physicist Peter Higgs.

The physicist who first theorised the existence of the "God particle" says it is about to be revealed. Photo: ATLAS detector. Credit: Sindre Skrede

The world's most powerful detector, called ATLAS, will identify trace particles called muons expected to be produced during the operation of CERN's particle collider (Large Hadron Collider) or LHC.Higgs first postulated the existence of the "God particle" named the Higgs boson in 1964 though its existence has yet to be proved."The likelihood is that the particle will show up pretty quickly ... I'm more than 90 percent certain that it will," said Higgs to reporters following his trip to CERN.Asked if he would celebrate the discovery he told AFP: "I shall open a bottle of something. It will be champagne -- whisky takes a little more time to drink."Higgs' early sixties work showed how a force, believed to have begun only milliseconds after the Big Bang, exists which would explain what gives mass to the universe, making life possible.In experiments at CERN's particle collider, conditions would be recreated as existed at the Big Bang, smashing particles at light speed and hopefully revealing to scientists some of the mysteries of the universe's beginnings.CERN though is not the only particle collider in the hunt for the elusive "God particle".Researchers at the Fermilab in Chicago are using the Tevatron accelerator, to also recreate the same conditions for the early life of the universe. However Higgs believes both the lab's detection and data processing capabilities are near obsolete."It's hard for them to find it but it could be already in their data but not in their analysis yet," Higgs said.

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EinstonApr 9th, 2008 - 06:45:36

Perhaps one day they will find that God is not a particle. I fear it will be to late for them by then.

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CongregationApr 9th, 2008 - 07:00:07

Well put!

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CrawkingApr 9th, 2008 - 07:03:31

Of course God is not a particle, God is a wave. Everyone knows that.

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Pretty blasphemousApr 9th, 2008 - 07:09:11

'God particle' ?

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mijuApr 9th, 2008 - 07:10:41

how is god a wave>>

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ProximakingApr 9th, 2008 - 09:52:25

Old hat rubbish. You don't need mass to explain the effects of mass. All you need is an information balance theory. At least Shell seem to think so. If you bang your head off the wall every time you look for mass surely it is time to rethink things. Put the following keywords in Google Shell Boffin Sinclair and read the top entry 'crackpot or genius'. There is a lot of money tied up in 'big science' but the little questions along the way were never answered it seems from the attached. All you need for existence it seems is self-consistency. The thing to remember about mass is that we are made of it so it is bound to seem 'real' but maybe it isn't quite so entrapping after all. If we are ever to escape that box waiting for us all at three score years and ten hadn't we better start thinking outside the 'mass' box?

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cristian negureanuApr 9th, 2008 - 11:43:01

1)The Bible:
'The Universe was formed at God's (elohim/ anunnaki) command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.'(Hebrews 11:3).
2)Google(www.ufodigest.com):
- Modern Science and the Ancient Writings on the Genesis of the Solar System
3)The book 'Planet Eris and the Global Warming'(can be found at Amazon)
4)Google: CPH Theory NASA AND PLANET X

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EarlApr 9th, 2008 - 15:12:04

Of course god is a wave...till you measure it!

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JTankersApr 12th, 2008 - 06:58:18

If you accept Einsteins theory that gravity around massive objects is actually a curvature of space and time, then is easy to imagine the same type of curvature of space and time in the presences of vacuum energy of our universe that imparts mass on matter. We can then 'feel' the vacuum energy when we accelerate in the weightlessness of space, and when we resist the force of gravity we are experiencing both curvatures.

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glhMay 30th, 2008 - 06:07:10

duh

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