Sci/Tech Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

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GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science.

First proposed as a theory in the 1960s, the maddeningly elusive Higgs had been hunted by at least two generations of physicists who believed it would help shape our understanding of how the universe began and how its most elemental pieces fit together.

As the highly technical findings were announced by two independent teams involving more than 5,000 researchers, the usually sedate corridors of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, erupted in frequent applause and standing ovations. Physicists who spent their careers in pursuit of the particle shed tears.

The new particle appears to share many of the same qualities as the one predicted by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs and others and is perhaps the biggest accomplishment at CERN since its founding in 1954 outside Geneva along the Swiss-French border.

 
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So, this is the ultimate evidence that denies any existance of Gods?

... What would the pope say? :eek:
 

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The fact that it's called the "God particle" just seems to make religious people see it as the ultimate evidence for God. Although, from what I heard, it was named the "Goddamn particle", but it was changed to the "God particle" as to not insult religious people.
 
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