Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Higgs boson

  • Butterfly scientists have their $24 nets. Well-heeled birders have their $2,000 Swarovski binoculars. Particle physicists have their $10 billion Large Hadron Collider.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • Just hours from now, physicists could announce theyre 99.9936 percent sure the Higgs boson exists, according to experts on the hunt for the so-called God particle.
  • (National Geographic)
  • Have you noticed all the buzz surrounding the Higgs boson? Do you have any idea what it is or what it means? Youre not alone. Let me help you brush up just in time for CERNs big announcement on July 4, 2012.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • So what is this Higgs boson thing all about again? The NASA-approved cartoon above tries to explain.
  • (Mashable)
  • LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists hunting the elusive subatomic Higgs particle will unveil findings on Wednesday that take them nearer to understanding how the Big Bang at the dawn of time gave rise to stars, planets and even life.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • As we patiently await the announcement from CERN physicists as to whether or not the Higgs boson has finally, irrefutably been discovered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists of the (now-retired) Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab, Ill.
  • (news.discovery.com)
  • Results from the US Tevatron, a smaller cousin of Cerns Large Hadron Collider, strongly point towards the existence of a Higgs Boson, scientists said.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • (CNN)-- At the start of a big week for the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics, scientists in Illinois said Monday that they had crept closer to proving that the particle exists but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.
  • (CNN)
  • Chances are one of your Bay Area neighbors will have had something to do with Tuesday nights expected announcement regarding the Higgs boson, the elusive God particle believed to be one of the universes basic building blocks.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • The Cern physics laboratory near Geneva appeared to leak crucial details of its hunt for the long-sought Higgs boson particle on Tuesday when it accidentally posted a video announcing the discovery of a new particle on its website.
  • (The Guardian)

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