so, god is The Higgs boson?

GENEVA - Scientists hunting for an elusive sub-atomic particle say
they've found "intriguing hints" that it exists, narrowing down the
search for what is believed to be a basic building block of the
universe.

The Higgs boson — popularly referred to as the "God particle" — is
more likely to be found in the lower mass or energy ranges of the
massive atom smasher being used to track it down, physicists from two
independent research teams said Tuesday.

The researchers were careful to note they do not have enough data yet
to definitively say the particle exists, but also said the latest data
is strong enough that the question could be answered one way or
another by next year.

Researchers hope that the particle, if it exists, can help explain
many mysteries of the universe. British physicist Peter Higgs, a CND
activist while in London and later in Edinburgh, but resigned his
membership when the group extended its remit from campaigning against
nuclear weapons to campaigning against nuclear power too. He was a
Greenpeace member until the group opposed genetically modified
organisms.

Higgs and others theorized the particle's existence more than 40 years
ago to explain why atoms, and everything else in the universe, have
weight.

Note: Higgs was awarded the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics, but refused to
fly to Jerusalem to receive the award because it was a state occasion
attended by the then President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, who Higgs is
opposed to because of Israel's actions in Palestine.

Both of the research teams are involved with CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN oversees the $10-
billion Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border, a 17-mile
tunnel where high energy beams of protons are sent crashing into each
other at incredible speeds.

Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian physicist who heads the team running the
so-called ATLAS experiment, said "the hottest region" is in lower
energy ranges of the collider. She said there are indications of the
Higgs' existence and that with enough data it could be unambiguously
discovered or ruled out next year.

Several mass or energy ranges within the atom smasher are now excluded
to a "95% confidence level," Gianotti told other physicists at CERN.

Afterward, Guido Tonelli, lead physicist for the team running what's
called the CMS experiment, outlined findings similar to those of the
ATLAS team, saying the particle is most likely found "in the low mass
region" of the collider.

Rolf Heuer, director of the European particle physics laboratory near
Geneva, said in conclusion that "the window for the Higgs mass gets
smaller and smaller." "But be careful — it's intriguing hints," he
said. "We have not found it yet, we have not excluded it yet."
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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some men's search for a god never ends ... poor fellers

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