The God Particle

According to reports scientists have found what they believe to be a particle that is similar to the long-sought Higgs boson aka the God Particle.  

"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.  "We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics," Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), told scientists."

The phrase "God particle" was actually coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman.  Despite the discovery scientists do not know what type of Higgs boson the particle actually is but until now the particle has been all theoretical.   According to the report the Higgs boson, "is seen as the key to our understanding of why matter has mass, which combines with gravity to give an object weight. The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton's discovery of it: Gravity was there all the time before Newton explained it. But now scientists know what a boson is and can put that knowledge to further use."
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/04/physicists-find-evidence-new-subatomic-particle-that-resembles-higgs-boson/?test=latestnews#ixzz1zgMMNE4M

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