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British physicist Peter Higgs who more than 40 years ago postulated the existence of the so-called 'god particle' in the makeup of the atom, is now predicting its discovery within the next year.The Higgs Boson particle, is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the only particle remaining not yet observed by science but would explain how other subatomic particles - such as quarks and electrons - have mass. The Higgs theory is that bosons create a field through which other particles pass.
Why is Higgs now predicting that we are so close to discovery? Competition between the Large Hadron Collider, under construction since 2003 near Geneva, Switzerland, and the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago. The Tevatron is currently the world's most powerful particle accelerator. CERN's new LHC, which has been installed in a 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, will be more powerful still and will be better able to show what particles are created in the collisions of beams of protons traveling at the speed of light.
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Peter Higgs told journalists in Geneva he doesn't like the term "God particle" because it might offend believers -- even though he is not one himself. More on the Reuters religion blog FaithWorld at http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/09/is-god-particle-the-right-term-for-massive-mystery-in-physics/
You are correct. I did not mean to offend anyone by including the term; but only wanted to identify the particle with the term used for it that most had probably heard already.
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