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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/25/2012 : 05:17:40
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After a billions of dollars of expenditure and more than a dozen years of searching by thousands of physicists at both the Large Electron–Positron Collider and the Large Hadron Collider, the elusive Higgs Boson has been found.
'It's not elementary, my dear colleague.' Prof. Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University stands before his Boson,
a sculpture he had crafted from an electric fan cage, spaghetti and food colouring whilst a boy in public school.
'It was in a disused corner of me attic, behind an old chest,' said a somewhat embarrassed Higgs. 'It was covered with cobwebs. Mice had eaten some of it and had made a nest of the remainder, so I've had to give it a good cleaning and replace some of the spag.
'Back when I had first rather casually mentioned to a colleague that my Boson was missing, I probably would have saved a bit of bother if I'd thought to specifically mention that the thing was simply some childhood art, and definitely not some sort of sub-atomic particle. Like a carpenter who is inclined to see everything as nails, my physicist colleague unfortunately got it into his head that my lost object was an elementary particle. The word spread, without my knowledge. I shall be more careful in future, and specify whether anything I've misplaced is or is not an elementary particle.'
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/25/2012 07:02:47
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Higgs Boson found at last
