Folks, it's not Mac but it sure is scientific and according to what I read it will mean a lot to the computing world should the announcement today be to the affirmative. I won't be able to send the entire article due to size limit on the list has but I'll send a short clip below the note I sent to my kids and grandchildren.
John > > > Today is the day scientist make the announcement if they have indeed > discovered the "God Particle", or the Higgs boston. They have built a huge > Hadron Collider, it's 17 miles long (I believe) underground in Switzerland. > This machine allows them to collide particles into each other at unbelievable > speeds. I only learned of this yesterday by reading one of the best Apps I > have ever had for the iPhone and iPad, SkyGrid. > > We have been told for years that matter is always moving, the desk I am using > to type this on, the keyboard, my monitor, even myself have particles that > are always moving, but how do they take a shape and form, how do they > accumulate mass? If I am understanding all this correctly the theory is > that the "God Particle" is moving so fast it gives shape to all the lessor > particles that form our universe. What they have been trying to prove for > years is that this "God Particle" exist and today they will make some kind of > announcement as to their years of research. > > I read four or five articles on this last night off SkyGrid (first time I > have ever heard of it) then again this morning before I got out of bed I read > three more, finally I found one that was a Question and Answer and it helped > me to understand what all the "hysteria" (their words not mine) is all about. > Maybe it will be on tonights news. > > Thought you might like to know and if it exist they say it will revolutionize > how we do research in the future, how it will alter the way we do gene > testing to how we send data over the internet at unbelievable speeds. Isn't > it awesome to be able to fill in many of the blanks in life due to the vast > amount of knowledge that is available to us. > > We'll see what they say, there is much speculation that they didn't find the > Higgs boston (named after the Physicist that first developed the theory). GENEVA—Excitement is growing ahead of the revelation of new data by scientists seeking an elusive subatomic particle that is believed to be a basic building block of the universe. Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva — which oversees the world's largest atom smasher — are set to unveil the data Tuesday. CERN scientists have told The Associated Press that the latest information from the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border helps narrow the region of the search for the particle known as the Higgs boson. The long-sought particle was named for British physicist Peter Higgs, who theorized its existence more than 40 years ago to explain the puzzle of how atoms — and everything else in the universe — have weight.
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