In Search of the God Particle


September 10, 2008

One year ago today the Large Hadron Collider was turned on for the first time when proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring as the search continues for the God Particle (Higgs Boson) - when energy first became matter. Then something happened at CERN - and the LHC was turned off. The resulting delay in repairs has made a lot of people question what really occurred.

On September 10, 2008, people around the world wondered if a black hole would open when the LHC was turn on full force, yet according to all reports nothing happened. Frankly, I never saw a black hole created, but I couldn't shake the feeling that there was indeed a connection with the startup of the LHC and closure of the program, perhaps something seemingly infinitesimal, yet a precursor to something explosive.

Physicists at CERN maintained that even if a tiny black hole were to open, it would close instantly. Yet many people worried and wondered. I am not one to subscribe to conspiracy theories so I wait and follow the story. A black hole would have closed the program as we all spiraled back into its event horizon from which we emerged in the beginning.




Physicists Search for Monstrous Higgs Particle. It Could Seal the Fate of the Universe   Live Science - June 5, 2019
We all know and love the Higgs boson - which to physicists' chagrin has been mistakenly tagged in the media as the "God particle" - a subatomic particle first spotted in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) back in 2012. That particle is a piece of a field that permeates all of space-time; it interacts with many particles, like electrons and quarks, providing those particles with mass, which is pretty cool. But the Higgs that we spotted was surprisingly lightweight. According to our best estimates, it should have been a lot heavier. This opens up an interesting question: Sure, we spotted a Higgs boson, but was that the only Higgs boson? Are there more floating around out there doing their own things? Though we don't have any evidence yet of a heavier Higgs, a team of researchers based at the LHC, the world's largest atom smasher, is digging into that question as we speak. And there's talk that as protons are smashed together inside the ring-shaped collider, hefty Higgs and even Higgs particles made up of various types of Higgs could come out of hiding.





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