Wednesday, July 4, 2012

From the NY Times: Higgs boson-physics' Holy Grail? (Maybe; ask the string theory folks...)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?_r=2&hp


A New Particle Could Be Physics’ Holy Grail





ASPEN, Colo. — Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collidersaid Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.

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