A Higgs Boson walks into a catholic church and the priest says “you can’t be in here”. The Higgs Boson says “but you can't have mass without me.”
~Geek Humor
Today was, I thought, the day we would learn whether or not the Large Hadron Collider proved or disproved the existence of the Higgs Boson particle. I see nothing in the news, though there has been a lot of hype leading up to this.
I did do some research and learned quite a bit about the Higgs Boson particle and the Large Hadron Collider (remember it from 2009? - it was going to create a black hole that would engulf the earth.) I will have to update this post further tomorrow.
The Higgs Boson is a particle that is a particle suggested to exist to explain mass given to particles (protons, neutrons, etc) made up of massless relatively massless elementary particles (quarks). The Higgs particle has yet to be observed, but the Large Hadron Collider, under construction at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, will be capable of collision energies of 14 TeV, should prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs Boson. The LHD is slated to begin operation in May 2008.
Well, this hardly seems newsworthy in these depressing days, and yet it does.
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