US atom smasher may have found new force of nature: Report

[optimsprm]

US physicists are to announce Wednesday that data from a major atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature.A spokeswoman from the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which operates the powerful particle accelerator Tevatron, said the results would be released at

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[fenris_lorsrai]

I perpetually misread Higgs-boson as Higgs-bosoM.

[goseaward]

Hmm. Think of it like...throwing a bunch of ping-ping balls at a statue in the middle of the room. Most of the time the ping-pong balls bounce off the edges of the statue, like you expect, but every once in a while they go right through and bounce off the far wall of the room. You'd be able to deduce that there was a hole somewhere in the middle of the statue that you hadn't expected, but until you get closer and look around, you can't do more than say, like, it's somewhere near the legs

[haruhiko]

a new force of nature.

It's love. Love is a force of nature.

[paulnolan]

Nah, love = electromagnetism. The amount of fun I've had with electricity proves this beyond all doubt. :3

[paulnolan]

Ooooooooo...

[ibishtar]

Anyone else trying to watch the live stream? Nothing on yet for me...