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US researchers have suggested that the elusive God particle - the Higgs boson - may actually be no less than a quintet of divine, and as yet elusive, components of the universe.
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it's looking a lot like the higgs isn't really the god particle after all
A lot of physics nowadays is just models. It's incredibly difficult to prove something right 100% so we do a bit of trial and error.
Until it's not discovered, it's only a guess. But the mass has got to be there and so it needs an explanation.
I think there's still hope of finding it but who knows?
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we should know soon enough, if and when they can get the hadron collidor to fire up and actually do what it's supposed to
i'm sure science will fing a hundred more such particles, a thousand even, and still really be none the wiser about why the universe came into existence. how may be but why? that will something they could only guess at