Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson. Here, science correspondent Ian Sample – author of Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle – explains what a Higgs boson is, how Cern physicists are looking for it, and why it matters if they find it.
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OK they say have found this Mathematical theorized Elusive Particle?
Now to prove the experiment should it not be redone by other scientists
to prove that the experiment is standing on concrete outcomes and provable
by re doing and doing again to become a standard in scientific acceptance.
I:E they say there was a big bang and we must believe it
OK the universe is expanding from nothing?
but what medium is it expanding into
we could be in a black hole sinking and everything seems to be
expanding away has we and all other stars fall in and the blank edge
we perceive be the event horizon.
each and everyone of us has a brain looking out on a world
that this brain perceives and deduces and makes contact with other
brains and hand shakes on outcomes right or wrong
what the real structure nature of the true universe or paper we are drawn upon
may never be achievable to find out
because of the limitations of the structure of our minds being
derived from the world we live in and how we thus perceive it.
Hmm, Im not so sure.