No it
is not the GOD particle. What it does do is fill another slot
inferred from symmetry that needed to exist. It is I think the most
massive but I may be wrong on that.
The
real GOD particle will turn out to be the neutral neutrino which we
may never actually detect. I have actually modeled it and described
it in an unpublished paper. It represents the dominant content of
the universe and is most certainly what is described as 'dark
matter'. It is actually quite neat although it will give you a
headache.
My
metric, introduced in my published paper allow us to calculate the
curvature generated by the GOD particle at any point in space. This
allows us to construct larger particles that make up the Standard
Model provided we have a very big computer.
In
the event we have a pretty good picture of the empirical world and
understand how to adjust the scaling as needed.
'Higgs' boson may
not be 'God particle'
ROBERT EVANS, REUTERs
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15,
2012 04:16 PM EST
British physicist Peter Higgs leaves after a news conference update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva July 4, 2012. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
GENEVA,
SWITZERLAND - A new elementary particle whose discovery was
announced with fanfare to a waiting world in July may be just a
little less exciting than scientists had hoped.
Reporting on a
conference in Kyoto where the latest data from their Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) was presented, scientists at the CERN European
research centre said on Thursday it seemed very likely that the
particle was indeed the long-sought Higgs boson, which gives mass to
matter.
But rather than an
exotic beast opening the door to new realms of cosmology as some had
hoped, the data increasingly suggests it is a “Standard Model
Higgs” fitting into the current scientific concept of the universe,
they asserted.
“It is still too
early to tell, but the new particle looks like, sings like, and
dances more and more like a Higgs boson,” said Pauline Gagnon,
a physicist on the LHC Atlas experiment, one of three which analyse
the data.
Oliver Buchmueller, of
the rival but parallel CMS experiment, told Reuters “the evidence
for it being the Higgs gets stronger and stronger as we go along.”
But there was still no
sign of it being more unusual than originally predicted.
The prime task of the
$10 billion LHC was to find the Higgs, without which the primeval
chaos of flying particle debris after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion
years ago, could not have formed into stars, planets and galaxies.
Existence of the
particle was postulated in 1964 by British physicist Peter Higgs, who
saw it filling a gap in the Standard Model, a blueprint of how the
universe works at the fundamental level fully developed from the
1970s.
Scientists sought to
track it from the 1980s and finally succeeded in spotting something
like it two years after the LHC went into operation in 2010.
But they insisted they
still had to establish its existence with what they call 5-sigma - or
absolutely total – certainty.
They had also hoped
their search would find at least some evidence for more
out-of-the-box concepts such as super-symmetry, dark matter and dark
energy - beyond the Standard Model and part of what they call fall
“New Physics.”
Super-symmetry could
theoretically account for the dark matter believed to make up nearly
25 percent of the known universe - of which no more than five percent
is visible. But no sign of that has come so far, the reports from
Kyoto say.
However, the CERN
scientists have not given up hope that something more exotic might
emerge. For the Higgs-like particle to presage super-symmetry, it
would have to come in at least five different varieties.
“The challenge is to
measure all the properties of the new particle in detail. It will
take time to establish a comprehensive understanding of its true
underlying nature,” said Buchmueller, who is working on
super-symmetry.
Scientists are now
looking to the years after 2014 when the power of the circular
collider is doubled, and even beyond to the construction
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