Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

By John Heilprin

Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, July 4 2012 6:21 a.m. MDT

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To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson — popularly known as the "God particle" — that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

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Tolstoy

salt lake, UT

@morpunkt
"The phrase "God particle" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman but is used by laymen, not physicists, as an easier way of explaining how the subatomic universe works and got started."

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11:19 a.m. July 4, 2012
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srw

Riverton, UT

morpunkt: The article says, "the phrase 'God particle'...is used by laymen, not physicists." I cannot imagine how that can be interpreted as "the scientific world claims to have discovered God."

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11:14 a.m. July 4, 2012
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srw

Riverton, UT

One more thing for morpunkt, who wrote, "Because, this find is predicated on the big bang theory."

That is incorrect. The observation of a Higgs particle tells us about how the universe works *today*. Such an observation More..

11:51 a.m. July 4, 2012
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