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4th July 2012: the Higgs is found!

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Timberlake: Higgs boson, not in America. Nationalism nowadays is generally an inadequate mentality.

Timberlake: Higgs boson, not in America

It estranges one nation from an ever globalizing world. A world that will need to work together to accomplish great things. But I need to admit, it was a bittersweet moment when I heard that CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva discovered a Higgs boson like particle with nearly 100 percent accuracy on America's Independence Day. If you aren't familiar with the latest news (and I dearly hope you are) for nearly 50 years the proposed Higgs boson particle was the most sought after discovery in science.

Some have argued it would be the greatest human discovery to date. Ironic undertones, as not too long ago Congress canceled a project already underway in Texas called the Superconducting Super Collider, which was to build an accelerator three times as powerful as the European counterpart. Higgs Boson announcement from Cern: LIVE. Higgs Boson Search Fundamental for Understanding Matter: Q&A. Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said its researchers observed a particle that may be the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that could explain where mass comes from.

Higgs Boson Search Fundamental for Understanding Matter: Q&A

The announcement coincides with the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Melbourne. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about the Higgs boson. Higgs Bosun Seminar - Live blogging messages. This post originally appeared in Stephen Sekula’s blog, “Going Up Alleys,” and is reproduced here by the author.

Higgs Bosun Seminar - Live blogging messages

An image of a Higgs Boson candidate captured by the ATLAS Detector at CERN. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the correction prediction of the Higgs Boson and its role in nature. Image courtesy of the ATLAS Experiment. It was announced this morning (4:45am US Central time) that the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to Peter Higgs (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Francois Englert (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) for their “…discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles…confirmed…by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.” The Fundamental Forces of Nature To date, four fundamental forces of nature have been identified. Less familiar, but no less important than gravity and electromagnetism, are the strong and weak nuclear forces.

Broken symmetry and massive force particles. Discover Magazine: 4th July 2012: Higgs is found! Scientists using the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle to very high confidence that is consistent with what we expect the Higgs particle to look like.

Discover Magazine: 4th July 2012: Higgs is found!

Ye. GADS. This plot shows the discovery as seen in one of the LHC detectors. Hang tight, and I’ll explain it! OK, the quick version. This particle is very hard to detect, because it doesn’t live long. So, you have to collide particles over and over again, countless times, to build up that tiny signal from the Higgs decay. Back now? A proton has a mass of about 1 GeV, so this excess found is about 125 times that much. Today that all changed. That’s huge. Higgs boson found: Scientists find 'God particle' after 40-year search in a 'momentous day for science' Discovery of particle is most important in physics in decades Leading physicists watch announcement at CERN in Switzerland End of 40-year quest for 'missing' particle Last jigsaw piece that proves our view of universe is right 'God Particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass Prof Higgs, 83: 'I had no idea this would happen in my lifetime' By Rob Waugh and Fiona Macrae Science Correspondent PUBLISHED: 07:17 GMT, 4 July 2012 | UPDATED: 15:16 GMT, 5 July 2012 The search for the 'God particle' is over.

Almost half a century after the existence of the Higgs boson – the particle that holds the universe together and gives it substance – was predicted, jubilant scientists announced that they appear to have found it. Rolf Heuer, director-general of Cern, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, told a packed auditorium: 'As a layman, I would say we have it.' Scroll down for video Two high-energy photons collide.

Gotcha! Higgs find will kick off new era of knowledge - physics-math - 03 July 2012. Physicists are rumoured to announce that they have discovered 'The God Particle,' but does finding it mean we now know the Mind of God? By Michael Hanlon PUBLISHED: 12:16 GMT, 3 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:23 GMT, 3 July 2012 So are we about to know the mind of God, as Stephen Hawking once put it so memorably?

Physicists are rumoured to announce that they have discovered 'The God Particle,' but does finding it mean we now know the Mind of God?

Watch a Livestream of the Higgs Boson Announcement Tonight. Update: The live feed is now available.

Watch a Livestream of the Higgs Boson Announcement Tonight

Scientists at CERN will announce their most recent results in the search for the Higgs boson early on July 4 — with many speculating that the discovery of the long-sought particle will finally be official. Join us here for a live feed from Europe of the event starting at 11 p.m PT tonight (2 a.m. ET). The announcement of results is expected to begin at midnight PT, featuring spokesmen from the Large Hadron Collider’s two Higgs-hunting experiments, ATLAS and CMS, followed by a press conference and question-and-answer session.