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Heard on the grapevine that its going to be annouced today that they found it 
Going to be a great day
For those interested, "ATLAS will today announce a 5-sigma signal and CMS will announce a 4.9-sigma signal of a new particle with a mass of 126.5 GigaelectronVolts (GeV) and 125.2 GeV respectively".
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RichR
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they're already anounced it; anounced at 0830
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Gary
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Say whaaaat?!
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Hammer
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Higgs Boson-like.
[Edited on 04-07-2012 by Hammer]
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Robin
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I'm surprised by this. I was expecting the world to end as creating black holes is bad mmmkay.
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Robin
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quote: Originally posted by Hammer
Higgs Boson-like.
[Edited on 04-07-2012 by Hammer]
99.9999% certain according to The Internet
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John
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quote: Originally posted by Hammer
Higgs Boson-like.
This.
They found a new particle. Probably the Higgs Boson, they didn't announce they found it.
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Steve
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They also announced they think they broke the speed of light once
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Jambo
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I can't wait to read the DailyMail god botherer comments
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adiohead
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I honestly didn't think it would exist.
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Gary
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So why's this so important?
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adiohead
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quote: Originally posted by Gary
So why's this so important?
Edit - sorry, I'm think of dark matter 
[Edited on 04-07-2012 by adiohead]
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Gary
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Ahhh. Fair enough.
Still non the wiser
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Brett
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I find it interesting how a full moon effects it.
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adiohead
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It's the particle which gives matter mass, the god particle
[Edited on 04-07-2012 by adiohead]
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Gary
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Ahh that explains it a bit better. I'll let you carry on now.
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sc0ott
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Short named for 'goddamm' particle because they struggled to find it.
Theyve probably just found a chinese lantern.
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Hammer
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
They also announced they think they broke the speed of light once
No they didn't.
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LeeM
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quote: Originally posted by Hammer
quote: Originally posted by Steve
They also announced they think they broke the speed of light once
No they didn't.
They did didn't they? They announced something then admitted they were wrong
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Neo
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quote: Originally posted by LeeM
quote: Originally posted by Hammer
quote: Originally posted by Steve
They also announced they think they broke the speed of light once
No they didn't.
They did didn't they? They announced something then admitted they were wrong
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9100009/Scientists-did-not-break-speed-of-light-it-was-a-faulty-wire.html
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Steve
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Yes turned out not true, but they made a claim they'd possibly done it, everyone got excited, turned out like that, hence my caution over this.
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JonnyJ
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
Yes turned out not true, but they made a claim they'd possibly done it, everyone got excited, turned out like that, hence my caution over this.
I think we can be a bit more confident over this one. They say the chances of getting this data set and it not been the higgs particle is 1 in 2,000,000
So if you fancy its wrong steve, might be worth a quid 
They've found a new particle regardless and its probably the higgs boson, its a pretty massive discovery.
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Nath
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So about the same odds as Steve doing a track day.
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Matt L
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what does it mean now they have found it? I watched some clip on the telegraph site expecting a bit of information into what it now means but instead i got pretty animations of how it was found.
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John
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The current model of physics is still holding true basically.
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