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MIT News reports that the particle discovered in 2012 and thought to be the elusive Higgs Boson is indeed that particle.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Physics, confirm that the bosons decay to fermions, a group of particles that includes all leptons and quarks, as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
"This is an enormous breakthrough," says Markus Klute, an assistant professor of physics at MIT and leader of the international effort. "Now we know that particles like electrons get their mass by coupling to the Higgs field, which is really exciting."
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 24 2014, @02:39AM
We can take the universe apart into it's tiniest building blocks.
But still not smart enough to get drinking water for more than 8/9 of the world population.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 24 2014, @06:35AM
And it doesn't need much smartness to recognize that the two subjects have little to do with each other.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 24 2014, @02:54PM
There will always be a bottom 10%.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"