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...appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle." The scientific term for it is the Higgs boson, and to find it physicists are counting on the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, a 17-mile underground circuit that took 25 years to plan and $6 billion to build...
...summer, but when Higgs, 78, made his first visit there on April 5, it was, in the nomenclature of particle physics, "an event." Grown men and women with Ph.D.s swarmed Higgs for autographs, but he appeared far more taken by the experimental equipment he hoped would find the Higgs boson and thus prove his theory. A particle detector called ATLAS, for instance, is 150 ft (46 m) long, 82 ft (25 m) high, weighs 7,000 tons and is connected to enough cable and wiring to wrap around the earth nearly seven times. "The sheer scale of the detectors...
...final plot twist is eminently satisfying but not all that surprising, it's only because fans have already worked through all the possible endings on the Internet with such massive rigor. If we'd spent all that energy on particle physics instead, we would have found the Higgs boson...
...Boson Globe reported earlier this week that a Federal Highway Administration report found that the I-93 tunnel was structurally safe for the time being, despite the many leaks...
...Guster? Where? Apparently someone on the Boson College Social Planning Committee decided to throw all conventions to the wind and plan a concert with old-school rap group Run DMC and college-rock favorites Guster co-headlining. Well, to be honest, "co headliners" is a relative term, and it would only be fair to admit that Guster stole the show last Wednesday in BC's Conte Forum. While Run DMC had its small share of loyal fans who apparently knew lyrics here and there within their set, the group's most emphatic claim was something along the lines...