BBC Focus Magazine

[Shadowwolf]

After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. Squeezing the last bit of information out of 500 trillion collisions produced by the Tevatron for each experiment since March 2001, the final analysis of the data does not settle the question of whether the Higgs particle exists, but gets closer to an answer.

The Tevatron scientists unveiled their latest results on July 2, two days before the highly anticipated announcement of the latest Higgs-search results from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

"The Tevatron experiments accomplished the goals that we had set with this data sample," said Fermilab's Rob Roser, cospokesperson for the CDF experiment at DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. "Our data strongly point toward the existence of the Higgs boson, but it will take results from the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe to establish a discovery."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120702141716.htm

[MikeG]

Looks like CERN has come out strongly by practically confirming the discovery of the Higgs.

Physicists said they had discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle crucial to scientists' current understanding of how the universe is built, although they will need additional data to pin it down with near absolute certainty.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 19860.html

Looks like Europe will be sweeping the Nobel prizes related to this race.

[M Paul Lloyd]

So we may now have the key to resolving the mystery of the origin of mass, as in the Higgs field, that presumably pervades the universe. So as objects travel though this field, they acquire mass. So no movement and no mass, therefore no gravity.

Plus the Standard Model that describes the universe's very small things is established and would also help explain how the electromagnetic force and the weak force of radioactive decay can be unified.

Along with supersymmetry where every known particle has a 'superpartner' equivilent but with slightly different properties.

And then my head starts hurting.

[Lateralman]

Here is the glue that holds the universe together! Now for my next trick, may I present...the solvent!