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Written by 2000l, April 30th, 2007
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Physicists in Canada have a brand new atom smasher designed to reveal one of the Universe’s great secrets: Why does matter have mass? The unsexy sounding still though theoretical sub-atomic particle Higgs boson has an ecumenical alias the “God particle.” Given the pronounced views on the existence of God professed by many scientists, the name alone is interesting. Its discovery could shed new light on basic workings of the universe, including proof of the existence of black holes and even eventually incorporating the force of gravity into a unified physics theory — a quest that many great minds in physics, including Albert Einstein, have pursued. ( Globe and Mail)
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