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ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:12 am

Scientist's working with the famous Hadron Collider in Switzerland believe they have found the "God Particle" and will be making their findings public today in an announcement later this afternoon.

If it is true think of the implications it will have and what it will do for the scientific community.

mikeledray · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:42 am

strotter13 · Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 1683 Location: Nevada

Very cool stuff. A couple years back I read the book "The Theory To Almost Everything" by Robert Oertor (it is about the Standard Model Theory) very interesting stuff.

mavrick · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2819 Location: colorado

i'm sure newt or mitt will claim to have direct communication with the god particle.

olavs · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 241 Location: la la land

If there is a god particle i want to know
a} is there only one god particle or many
b} if there is a god particle is there a devil particle
c} what do you do if you don't believe in god or EL fairies.

cameron · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 1240 Location: United States

copidosoma · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 3784 Location: Canada

If you read the release you will see that they have narrowed down the range in which they believe that the Higgs Boson (God particle is just general media hype). It isn't a discovery yet but they are getting closer.

FWIW this is something along the lines of finding "the electron". Not exactly going to change everything in the short term. It would just demonstrate the extreme robustness of the standard model of particle physics.

It would be more accurate to describe it as the "anti god particle" actually as this goes a long way to demonstrating that scientific inquiry and basic research using the scientific method is extremely powerful in observing and predicting characteristics of the world around us. Our understanding of the universe is truly amazing when you look into it. Much more than the "god made it" crowd would get.

;)

mikeledray · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:25 am

The only photo of the "God Particle" known to man

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-43815994/stock-photo-out-of-focus-and-moving-colored-lights-for-backgrounds-and-various-uses.html?src=76c06081d6965a8f97156ce461f42352-1-0

Yep im That Good!
see below

http://news.yahoo.com/long-sought-god-particle-cornered-scientists-140202981.html

rudyumans · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:04 pm

Yours is better Mike. It has the full color spectrum. The other one doesn't :)

mikeledray · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:17 pm

kellyplz · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:33 pm

vanhart · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 2380 Location: Houston

Wonder where this world is going when science is claiming God and Religion is claiming scientific proof of a belief.

Who is smoking what?

PaulCowan · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 4181 Location: Evolving

The scientists aren't claiming god, they upset about the name http://www.firstpost.com/tech/higgs-boson-why-physicists-hate-the-term-god-particle-155838.html

okiepony · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:43 pm

evaners · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:16 pm

I'm digging up this old thread again, because physicists at Fermilab have announced the "strongest indication to date" of the existence of the Higgs Boson. Here's an article.

And, dammit, I wish people would stop calling it the God particle. The term was just a wisecrack from a physicist, and I'm sure he regrets ever muttering it. But you know how the press are; once they latch onto a phrase they just can never let go.