Thursday, July 5, 2012

Eureka! Cern announces discovery of Higgs boson 'God particle' ........!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Higgs boson particle, sometimes called the Brut-Englert-Higgs boson... The name boson is derived from the surname of the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, a contemporary of the German physicist Albert Einstein. The “God particle” the other name for Higgs boson particle is a hypothetical elementary particle, a boson, that is the quantum of the Higgs field. The field and the particle provide a testable hypothesis for the origin of mass in elementary particles. In popular culture, the Higgs boson is also called the God particle, a name disliked by many scientists, after the title of Nobel physicist Leon Lederman’s The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), which contained the author’s assertion that the discovery of the particle is crucial to a final understanding of the structure of matter. The “God particle” nickname actually arose when the book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman was published. Since then, it’s taken on a life of its own, in part because of the monumental questions about matter that the God particle might be able to answer. The man who first proposed the Higgs boson’s existence, Peter Higgs, isn’t all that amused by the nickname “God particle,” as he’s an avowed atheist. All the same, there isn’t really any religious intention behind the nickname. Mass : 125.3±0.6 GeV/c2[2], ∼126.5 GeV/c2[3] Electric charge : Spin : 0

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