Tevatron may discover ‘God particle’ by 2011
By ANIWednesday, September 2, 2009
LONDON - The Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) delay in starting up has benefited the Tevatron collider near Chicago, with officials at the facility saying that they now have a brighter chance of discovering the elusive Higgs boson, or ‘God particle’, by the year 2011.
“The Tevatron definitely has a chance,” Greg Landsberg of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who works on one of the LHC’s detectors, told New Scientist.
With the LHC due to restart only in November at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, the Tevatron has been gaining ground in the search for the Higgs, the particle thought to give mass to other elementary particles.
At the recent Lepton Photon conference in Hamburg, Germany, Tevatron physicists said that by early 2011, they would have recorded enough data to allow them to either find or rule out the Higgs as predicted by the standard model.
The LHC will have to sprint to catch up, and it won’t be easy.
While the LHC’s higher energies should produce more Higgs particles, it will also boost the production of other particles that can mimic a Higgs, according to Gordon Kane of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Telling between the two will require a precise understanding of how the LHC’s detectors are working, which takes time to develop.
The LHC, however, could become the first to find particles of dark matter, a search for which the Tevatron is not well suited. (ANI)
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October 25, 2009: 11:20 am
Basis For A Theory Of Everything Hidden Dimensions? The Basic Implications Of E=Total[m(1 + D)] A. Its essential statement “Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time to the early hot dense “Big Bang” phase, using general relativity, yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. At age 10^-35 seconds the Universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the Universe will ever hold.” E = Energy content of the universe At D=0, E was = m and both E and m were, together, all the energy and matter the Universe will ever hold. Since the onset of the cataclysm, E remains constant and m diminishes as D increases. At 10^-35 seconds, D was already a fraction of a second above zero. This is when gravity starts. This is what started gravity. At this instance starts the energetic space texture, starts the straining of the space texture, and starts the space-texture-memory, gravity, that most probably will eventually overcome expansion and initiate re-impansion back to singularity. B. Some of its further essential implications beyond Einstein-Hubble and re classical-quantum physics And again and again : “On The Origin Of Origins” 1. It promotes commonsensical scientific critical thinking beyond Einstein-Hubble. The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics, which is the fractal oneness of the universe. Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters. The onset of big-bang’s inflation, the cataclysmic resolution of the Original Superposition, started gravity, with formation - BY DISPERSION - of galactic clusters that behave as classical Newtonian bodies and continuously reconvert their original pre-inflation masses back to energy, thus fueling the galactic clusters expansion, and with endless quantum-within-classical intertwined evolutions WITHIN the clusters in attempt to delay-resist this reconversion. 2. There is no call, no need, for any dark energy. The energy of the universe is conserved. The mass of the universe is conserved in the form of energy, the energy fueling the clusters expansion. At the next universal singularity, at the next D = 0, there will again be E = m for a small fraction of a second…just wait and see… Following Newton (1) gravity is decreased when mass is decreased and (2) acceleration of a body is given by dividing the force acting upon it by its mass. By plain common sense the combination of those two ‘laws’ may explain the accelerating cosmic expansion of galaxy clusters and the laws that drive it, based on the E/ m/ D relationship suggested above.. 3. There is no call, no need, for a Higgs Particle. The resolution of energy-mass superposition is reverted when D = 0. Shockingly sad, but must be soberingly faced rationally. C. Its implications re the origin and nature of life beyond Darwin, re selection for survival For Nature, Earth’s biosphere is one of the many ways of temporarily constraining an amount of energy within a galaxy within a galactic cluster, for thus avoiding, as long as possible, spending this particularly constrained amount as part of the fuel that maintains the clusters expansion. Genes are THE Earth’s organisms and ALL other organisms are their temporary take-offs. For Nature genes are genes are genes. None are more or less important than the others. Genes and their take-offs, all Earth organisms, are temporary energy packages and the more of them there are the more enhanced is the biosphere, Earth’s life, Earth’s temporary storage of constrained energy. This is the origin, the archetype, of selected modes of survival. The early genes came into being by solar energy and lived a very long period solely on direct solar energy. Metabolic energy, the indirect exploitation of solar energy, evolved at a much later phase in the evolution of Earth’s biosphere. Dov Henis |
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