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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455

Cern scientists reporting in the UK and Geneva claim the discovery of a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.

The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.

CMS, one of the two Higgs-hunting experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, has reached a level of certainty worthy of a "discovery".

The other experiment, Atlas, has yet to report its results
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Nick333 said:
If that shyte doesn't get them laid nothing will.
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DJ... said:
The antichrist particle to some. But yes, that thing...
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Why is it considered anti christ?

Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
 
killadoob said:
Why is it considered anti christ?

Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
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The black-hole nonsense that the xtian brigade got a stiffy about...
 
killadoob said:
Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
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No.
Do you think we will ever have evidence that invisible unicorns don't exist?

Edit: even though some believe they are extinct
 
This particle has got sweet nothings to do with God, some daft scientist shortened it's nickname "the God dammit particle", because it proved so hard to find with so many false discoveries, to the God particle and of course the media picked up on it and use it to drive religiots nuts!!!

Elementary particle physics is the only branch of science that religious nuts absolutely cannot comment about, so please don't invite them in by calling it the God particle...
 
killadoob said:
Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
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I don't know why people think that empirical science can confirm or refute the notion that creation ex nihilo is true or false, or think that empirical science can confirm or refute the notion that every contingent being can continue to exist without something sustaining/conserving it in existence. Conflating unicorns with God is also dishonest or ignorant or a combination of both. But that is a story for another time.

So no, this discovery has no theological significance.
 
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More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.
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Indications are strong, but it remains to be seen whether the particle the team reports is in fact the Higgs - those answers will certainly not come on Wednesday.
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So what exactly is new with this announcement ?
 
killadoob said:
Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
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It is just as much prove for both arguments as what gravity is prove for or against it.
 
A few weeks ago they discovered 2 new elements, and now this.
amazing to think what we have accomplished in the last 50 years. (or even, in the last 20 years)


Are there any smart guys out there that can fill us in on the real world implications of this discovery? (minus the fact that it confirms our prev understanding of particles)
 
2 new elements a few weeks ago? You sure you not referring to the 2 discovered last year?
 
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