Thursday, March 11, 2004

A Physics Post

I have a oh so small grasp of physics, which is somewhat appropriate since many elusive particles in physics are so small, well they’re so small one cannot be quite certain, at times, if that is what is being seen.

So this BBC headline caught my attention “‘God particle’ may have been seen."

“‘God’ particle is, of course, simply an affectionate term.  What the physicists think they may have found is the elusive, and very important, Higgs boson.

"The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter."

There is still work to do though, as the following statement makes clear.

"There’s certainly evidence for something, whether it’s the Higgs boson is questionable,..."

I don’t know why, but when I read the above I thought of Ghostbusters.

Link to article via Fred Lapides.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/11 at 04:24 AM
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