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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...
...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...
...would simply fall apart. "This provides a sense of relief," says TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick, who notes that the top quark completes a set of six oddly-named particles that account for the atom. But there's more: now scientists are free to chase the elusive "Higgs boson," to "answer the question most of us didn't think needed to be answered -- why all the other particles have any mass...