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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
01 Sep 2004 03:23:29 AM |
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Peter Higgs |
The heart of the matter
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=557007
Forty years ago, Peter Higgs predicted a subatomic particle that gave
all others their weight. The trouble is, nobody has ever seen it. Will
a £3bn machine finally reveal the elusive 'God Particle'? Peter
Rodgers reports
01 September 2004
While most people seem to be obsessed with losing weight, physicists
have the opposite problem: they want to know how fundamental particles
such as electrons put on weight. According to the very basic laws of
nature, these particles should not weigh anything at all. So where
does their weight - or mass, as physicists prefer to call it - come
from? And why do they all have different weights?
Most physicists believe that the answers to these questions can be
found in another particle called the Higgs boson. But no one has ever
seen a Higgs boson, even though it was first predicted by the British
physicist Peter Higgs in the summer of 1964. This is why governments
across Europe and beyond are spending some £3bn on a massive
underground particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) at the Cern laboratory in Geneva.
Peter Higgs
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Peter%20Higgs%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
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CERN
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=CERN&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=CERN&sa=N&tab=nw
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