Higgs boson confirmed - the God particle Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Higgs, a resident of Woodside, on Jul 4, 2012 at 10:32 am
Very cool. The rest of the world goes on while we holiday. In fact, they go on and discover the glue that holds us together.
Literally.
The Higgs boson.
Saw Ezra Klein yak about it on Monday's Moment of Geek. Very cool.
from the Wash Post:
"A half-century scientific quest culminated early Wednesday as physicists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle — one theorized to be so fundamental that without it, nothing could exist.
Dubbed the Higgs boson — or the “God particle,” to the chagrin of scientists — the particle is thought to create a sort of force field that permeates the universe, imbuing everything that we can see and touch with the fundamental property known as mass.
“To the layman I now say, I think we have it,” said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, immediately after physicists presented compelling evidence for the new particle at a seminar in Geneva.
“Do you agree?” he asked the several hundred scientists packing CERN’s main auditorium.
Applause broke out. The video feed from CERN showed Peter Higgs, the University of Edinburgh physicist who theorized the existence of this exotic particle in 1964, tearing up."
Posted by Improper name, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Jul 6, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Referring to it as the God particle is lazy thinking. The original writer referred to it as the "goddamned particle" expressing his hard frustrating work.
His possibly well meaning, or religious, editor changed it.
Catchy pseudonym but we need a more accurate name. The Higgs boson works for me.
Posted by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Jul 7, 2012 at 11:53 am
Especially from Sharon!
It's wonderful and great to see a focus on geeks excited about science instead of technology. Hopefully, some of the non-geeks will catch on to the excitement and pay attention to this.
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