What's the Vegas over-under? > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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