The first of many indications our view of reality is about to.. Morph. What an amazing time: Scary as hell and exploding outward in every conceivable direction, good solidly mixed in with the bad. This.. Could be Good. Excerpts:
DATA from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature.
But experts aren't ready to tell the rest of the world what it actually means just yet. They cautioned that more analysis was needed over the next several months to uncover the true nature of the discovery.
"There could be some new force beyond the force that we know," physicist Giovanni Punzi said.
"If it is confirmed, it could point to a whole new world of interactions," he told AFP.
While much remains a mystery, researchers agree that this is not the "God Particle", or the Higgs-boson, a hypothetical elementary particle which has long eluded physicists who believe it could explain why objects have mass.
And:
"My personal judgment is that this excitement is adding fuel to the fire for the next generation of results and discoveries that will be made at the LHC (in Europe) and elsewhere. (Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF.)
"We are so close to learning something profound."
DATA from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature.
But experts aren't ready to tell the rest of the world what it actually means just yet. They cautioned that more analysis was needed over the next several months to uncover the true nature of the discovery.
"There could be some new force beyond the force that we know," physicist Giovanni Punzi said.
"If it is confirmed, it could point to a whole new world of interactions," he told AFP.
While much remains a mystery, researchers agree that this is not the "God Particle", or the Higgs-boson, a hypothetical elementary particle which has long eluded physicists who believe it could explain why objects have mass.
And:
"My personal judgment is that this excitement is adding fuel to the fire for the next generation of results and discoveries that will be made at the LHC (in Europe) and elsewhere. (Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF.)
"We are so close to learning something profound."
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