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Physicists anxiously await ‘God particle’ announcement from CERN

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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday about the elusive “God particle.” Researchers at the facility have spent billions of dollars trying to locate the theoretical particle that forms the basis of modern physics.

Tantalizing indications, but no proof, of existence of Higgs boson — ‘God particle’

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Our ‘Unstable’ Universe Could Be Wiped Out by a New One

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The Where, the Why, and the How

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Physicists Win Nobel Prize for Quantum Observation

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Higgs Boson Song Composed From Research Data

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Domenico Vicinanza is a particle physicist and a composer and has written a song whose notes are defined by the data points drawn from the research around the Higgs boson.

Atomic Particles and Teeny Bikinis

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Today’s global hit is in honor of the bikini’s anniversary.

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Have Scientists at CERN Discovered the Elusive Higgs Boson?

CERN scientists could bring the biggest news in physics in decades by declaring if they have discovered an elusive sub-atomic particle, called the Higgs Boson.

Physicists Await Glimpse of ‘God Particle’

Near Geneva, Switzerland scientists from the European Center for Nuclear Research are scheduled to present preliminary evidence in their search to find the Higgs boson particle, commonly known as the “God particle.” Proving its existence would validate the leading theory of particle physics. Harvard physics professor and particle theory expert Dr. Lisa Randall is the […]