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God Particle Found! Our Understanding Of The Universe Is About To Change (Videos)

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 8:17
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(Before It's News)

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

 





The experiments found hints of the new particle by analysing trillions of proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2011 and 2012. TheStandard Model of particle physics predicts that a Higgs boson would decay into different particles – which the LHC experiments then detect.

 

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes.

Event display showing particle tracks from a collision as seen by the CMS experiment
© CERN 2012 

Both ATLAS and CMS gave the level of significance of the result as 5 sigma on the scale that particle physicists use to describe the certainty of a discovery. One sigma means the results could be random fluctuations in the data, 3 sigma counts as an observation and a 5-sigma result is a discovery. The results presented today are preliminary, as the data from 2012 is still under analysis. The complete analysis is expected to be published around the end of July.

At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.

“We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage,” said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, “but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.”

"The results are preliminary but the 5 sigma signal at around 125 GeV we’re seeing is dramatic. This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found,” said CMS experiment spokesperson Joe Incandela. “The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks."

“It’s hard not to get excited by these results,” said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. “ We stated last year that in 2012 we would either find a new Higgs-like particle or exclude the existence of the Standard Model Higgs. With all the necessary caution, it looks to me that we are at a branching point: the observation of this new particle indicates the path for the future towards a more detailed understanding of what we’re seeing in the data.”

The results presented today are labelled preliminary. They are based on data collected in 2011 and 2012, with the 2012 data still under analysis. Publication of the analyses shown today is expected around the end of July. A more complete picture of today’s observations will emerge later this year after the LHC provides the experiments with more data.

The next step will be to determine the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the universe. Are its properties as expected for the long-sought Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics? Or is it something more exotic? The Standard Model describes the fundamental particles from which we, and every visible thing in the universe, are made, and the forces acting between them. All the matter that we can see, however, appears to be no more than about 4% of the total. A more exotic version of the Higgs particle could be a bridge to understanding the 96% of the universe that remains obscure.

“We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.”

Positive identification of the new particle’s characteristics will take considerable time and data. But whatever form the Higgs particle takes, our knowledge of the fundamental structure of matter is about to take a major step forward.

What comes next 

Both the ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a new fundamental particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson. Now the exciting work of understanding its significance begins.

The results presented by ATLAS and CMS are labelled "very preliminary", having been prepared for presentation at the major particle physics conference of the year, ICHEP2012, which began in Melbourne on 4 July. The analyses are still being consolidated, and are expected to reach maturity by the end of the month. Once that has been achieved, work on determining the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the universe can begin in earnest. In particle physics parlance, strong evidence means that the probability of an observation being attributable to a statistical fluctuation is less than one per cent. Today, both the ATLAS and CMS experiments are beyond the level of around one per million that's required to claim a discovery, and the experiments should confirm that level of confidence once these analyses are complete.

The hunt for the Higgs particle has long been one of the top priorities for particle physics. The Higgs is associated with a mechanism proposed in the mid-1960s to explain why one of nature's fundamental forces has a very short range while a similar force has infinite range. The forces in question are the electromagnetic force, which brings light to us from the stars, carries electricity around our homes, and gives structure to the atoms and molecules from which we are all made, and the weak force, which drives the energy generating processes of the stars. The electromagnetic force is carried by particles called photons, which have no mass, whereas the weak force is carried by particles called W and Z that do have mass. Rather like people passing a ball, interacting particles exchange these force carriers. The heavier the ball, the shorter the distance it can be thrown; the heavier the force carrier, the shorter its range. W and Z particles were discovered at CERN in the 1980s, but the mechanism that gives rise to their mass remains to be unlocked, and the Higgs boson is the key.

A simple observation is not enough, however, because the Higgs boson can take many forms. In its basic incarnation, the mechanism is the simplest theoretical model that accounts for the mass difference between photons and W and Z particles, and for the masses of other fundamental particles. But there are other formulations of the mechanism linked to theories such as supersymmetry, which could account for the universe's mysterious dark matter, or to theories predicting extra dimensions of space, which, if verified, would truly revolutionise our understanding of the universe we live in.

So once the discovery is confirmed, the next question is: "What kind of Higgs boson do we have"? Positive identification of the new particle's characteristics will take considerable time and data. It's rather like spotting a familiar face from afar; closer observation might be needed to tell whether it's an old friend who loves coffee, or her identical twin sister who favours tea. But whatever form the Higgs particle takes, our understanding of the universe is about to change.
 

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  • Anything to justify current and future funding. IT IS that simple.

  • notice they say sigma 5 but say “could be the higgs”. LMFAO the god particle has not been found, only a particle.

  • EXPLOIT VIRUS FOUND @ http://vidjaa1.info

    The link saying to watch FULL VIDEO triggered my AVG Alarm!

  • Antimatter God particle = Dog particle.

  • HiddenTextor says of 9 44
    July 4, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    From the Hidden Texts of Nostradamus a straight-up warning regarding the Contrary Pozitron Ray Particle Collider
    Do keep in mind that there is another one ON THE SAME LATITUDE on the other side of the world UNDER LAKE SUPERIOR
    9 44
    1.Migres, migres de Genesve trestous. (pun on ‘migraines’)
    2.Saturne d’or enfer se changers
    3.Le contre RAYPOZ exterminera tous
    4.Avant l’a ruent le ciel signes fera.
    ……………………………………………
    1.Migrate, flee Geneva every last one of you
    (from GENESVE) – codes within codes we get:
    The seventh example (Earth) migrate, leave – all of you
    2.Saturn will change to golden inferno – (a new sun)
    3.The contrary “RAYPOZ” will exterminate you all
    4.Before the bucking (Earth) the sky will show signs
    = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
    5 46 3 The Hidden Texts for 9 44
    1.On produira contre lui grans sophismes
    NUCLEATOR SPOONERISM………(RayPoz: causes)
    PERSON NEURALGY MOPISHNESS….. (Migraines)
    HIS IMPONDEROUS OMENS OS…… (in Capricorn)
    MOSES SOPHI RULE YULE SUN CRUELER AGONY
    UGLY SUN NUCLEATOR one cruel ray SOON
    YULE CRUEL YEAR
    ……………………………………………………………..
    1.One will produce great wisdom against it
    The “it” is the particle collider of 9 44
    NUCLEATOR SPOONERISM means the PARTICLE COLLIDER
    [to switch the first letter/s, as in “mords wuddled”] = RAYPOZ of 9 44
    Which becomes POSITRON RAY that causes damage to the NEURONES
    = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
    The “seventh example” (from G.E.N.E.S.V.E) is the Earth
    Nostradamus counted planets from outside in towards the sun
    The same as any visitor from another planetary system would.
    MOSES SOPHI: The Wise One RULES that Earth will be ‘migrated’
    This is a good thing, because it will save us from our own sun.

    Da Vinci said on the same subject:
    “You (EARTH) shall behold yourselves falling from great heights without suffering any injury; the torrents (ORBITS) will bear you with them as they mingle in their rapid course”.

    In his Epistle to Henri Nostradamus wrote of history past and future, including:
    “that the great translation will be made and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness. …………………………
    (The 30 hours of “sack cloth” – in the Bible i.e. ‘no stars’)
    In the spring there will be omens, and thereafter extreme changes, reversals of realms and mighty earthquakes.
    These will be accompanied by the procreation of the new Babylon, miserable daughter enlarged by the abomination
    of the first holocaust.”
    ["Miserable daughter of the first holocaust"]

  • greene2120 hits the nail squarely on the head. This is just a softening-up process to get everyone to agree to build an even larger particle accelerator, and safeguard these people’s jobs and rather curious choice of T-shirts well into the next millennium.
    The weak link in their analysis is that they think that super-heavy particles are needed because 96% of the mass in the universe is missing, or “dark” as they would have it. This is a schoolboy error. The universe is not held together by gravity, which is a property related to adjacent masses. The universe is ruled by electromagnetism, which is orders of magnitude more powerful and adaptable. But for reasons best known to themselves, they do not include it in their models of galactic structure and function. And nobody else knows what they are talking about anyway, so the delusion propagates itself and remains unchallenged.
    “Ever learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth” sums them up quite nicely.

  • Our Understanding Of The Universe Is About To Change

    No truer words ever said

  • Instead of trying to find out how G-D made the universe – why not use that money and intelligence on beneficial things. G-D has his universe under control so just accept it and move on.

  • Wall street runs ponzi schemes first and take money from Government later. These guys take money first and run ponzi schemes later. Government print it in both cases.

  • I recon they are so desperate to find the Higgs Boson (to justify their Job’s and the expense) that they are willing to call anything remotely resembling their predictions, the Higgs Boson.

    This is smoke and mirrors folks.

    And Blowingoutghost, “vibration” explains nothing. Where and what creates the energy which causes vibration?

  • letter in reply to higgs bosen/god culture

    listen,if you can say we,ve found the god gene or god culture, the next thing is there’s no god, but satanists shall carry on with their agenda?

    sez lezlow

  • jenchen

    These scientists are all lying atheists.
    They don’t want to make the world a better place.
    They want to be God.
    They think they are so superior because they believe their own BS.
    They have no idea what God is, they have no idea about any real truth.
    Scientists are complete scum so full of it.
    They are just seeking some way to think they have great value, because the truth is they are completely worthless.
    They are all just in it for money=power and false pride.
    They will never know God or understand any truth.
    The universe is spiritual not material.
    Those who cling to the material are regressing back-satanic evil.
    Only those who are spiritual beings who don’t care for the things of this world-are advancing forward-evolving into more angelic loving beings-this world is a school-to teach you how to love.
    Love is the only power we need.
    Scientists have no clue.
    Science began when the children of the idle rich-victorian, era capitalists-who had unlimited wealth while others suffered and starved
    and little 5 year old children went to work in factories and were maimed by machinery.
    The rich were the only ones allowed to be educated they wanted to feel superior-
    they stared science and gave things latin stupid names it is all so they wouldn’t feel guilty about being parasites the idle rich feeding off their slaves-the working poor.
    They needed to feel smart and great-important-what total morons.
    Science is all about not facing the truth-
    living in a fantasy that you have great value as a really smart superior being -a scientist.
    Being completely unaware of the real purpose of life-that love alone has value.
    This world is an illusion-there is nothing finite in God’s creation except in their stupid ridiculous theories.
    They torture animals to fell smart. They are all evil and completely worthless fools.

  • I guess its time for the grant funding to be distributed. Quick we need the most; we found da legendary GOD PARTICLE!

    What a load of shit. Stop researching metaphysics and find a way to stop world hunger.

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