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| Thought I'd add this here instead of making a new thread: (edit: there would be a link here but errors keep happening. It was a link to an article on scientificamerican.com, you can find it by going there an searching "tantalizing higgs")
In December, CERN discovered an anomaly in one of their particle-smashing stunts or whatever it is they do; an anomaly that exceeds those predicted. Both teams and their respective instruments discovered the same one, at the same mass level and such. This hasn't happened before, it's basically evidence that there definitely is *something* to what they're doing.
I happened to be on SciAm's website when they added a panel discussion about these findings the same day as the announcement (edit: I had a link here too, but errors. Also SciAm.com, search "demystifying higgs"), though I couldn't get the video of it to play just now.
The whole CERN thing is absolutely fascinating to me. Forget the Higgs Boson, imagine what other possible discoveries might occur. We're talking the smallest, most basic building blocks of the universe, and the science around them. Consider, for instance, if one were to learn how to reduce matter to these particles, and build it up again differently. Or convert them into energy. The potential applications of such technology could revolutionise production, end the energy crises, or... well... destroy the Earth. But, hey, it's not like we're not already on top of that.
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