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Published on 01-12-2012 03:26 AM
Yes, there is a particle called the “God particle” – or, at least, physicists think there is. This particle, called the “Higgs boson,” is still just part of a theory – scientists haven’t yet proved its actual existence. But this isn’t for lack of trying: just this week, announcements were made that the mass of this particle has been tentatively determined – an important step in proving its existence.
“Tentatively determined” may not sound like much, but it’s a fairly large accomplishment in the world of particle physics, a world for which God seems to have reserved the weirdest bits of science. Many of the terms and labels in this field of science – “charm” and “strange” quarks, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, gluons, muon neutrinos
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