This morning in Geneva, CERN fired up the Large Hadron Collider…
…the protons were “duly unleashed”. But, according to this, it’s going to be a while before they discover the Higgs boson (“God Particle”) or, we all get sucked in to a black hole.
Even worse…
Indeed, if the boson’s properties obey the strictures laid down for it by Peter Higgs and the other physicists who predicted it way back in the 1960s, the moment of discovery may turn out to be something of an anticlimax. Assuming that moment can be defined, of course.
Hmmm…”Assuming that moment can be defined!!??”, that doesn’t sound nearly as spectacular as I was hoping. But, I know nothing of particle physics. As a matter of fact, I didn’t know so many people were looking for the Higgs boson until recently. I like all the pictures though.
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