I was just reading the latest about what’s being discovered by the use of gigantic particle accelerators around the world, like the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi Accelerator and the CERN in Switzerland. It is said that “tantalizing hints” of the theorized Higgs boson particle, otherwise known as the “God particle,” have been seen. The Higgs boson, if it exists, isn’t very much; it’s merely the particle that enables other particles to have mass. Without mass, things would be much the same, I suppose, except considerably lighter. Obesity would hardly be an issue at all and public schools in America could focus more on reading, writing and arithmetic versus tinkering with what children are eating. Continue reading “Man at Last Seeks God [Particles]”
Particles may travel faster than light
The world of science is abuzz with findings that suggest subatomic particles called neutrinos may have traveled faster than light, contradicting Einstein’s theory that the speed of light was an absolute that could not be exceeded. Fundamental laws of physics? Easy come, easy go. Continue reading “Particles may travel faster than light”