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UCLA physicists played prominent role in Nobel Prize-winning Higgs boson research

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2013Scienceatlas, belgium, Britain, CERN, cms experiment, compact muon solenoid, david cline, david saltzberg, electrons, forces of nature, francois englert, god particle, higgs boson particle, higgs boson research, jay hauser, Large Hadron Collider, lhc, nobel prize, peter higgs, photons, switzerland, ucla physicists

Two large collaborations of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made worldwide news in July 2012 when they announced independent observations of the elusive Higgs boson particle — a discovery hailed as one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of recent decades.

This so-called “God particle” was first postulated some 50 years ago as a crucial element of the modern theory of the forces of nature — it is, physicists say, what gives everything in the universe mass — and it had been the subject of worldwide searches ever since. (more…)

Anthropologist: Japan Will Rise Above This Disaster

“Japan will recover from the catastrophe that has hit its shores,” says Bernard Bernier, director of the Université de Montréal Department of Anthropology. “This will not be a turning point in the country’s history.”

“I don’t want to underestimate the repercussions of the drama that has unfolded in the affected communities,” says Bernier. “In addition to the dead and the wounded, 300,000 people are now homeless. And the national economy is greatly indebted, which will make it that much more difficult to finance reconstruction projects. But the country has rolled up its sleeves before.” (more…)

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UCLA physicists played prominent role in Nobel Prize-winning Higgs boson research

Anthropologist: Japan Will Rise Above This Disaster