Atheist In Heaven - Does It Matter?

Irony at its best:

The single biggest God proponent of this young century: an atheist.
It makes sense midda kinneged midda, because science probably only has a leg to stand on because of the Torah i.e. Bereishit.

Welcome to the lunacy of the Higgs....can't we just say, "'OK', God created the World.Done?"

Scotsman.com:

SCOTS scientist Professor Peter Higgs has urged the public to stop calling the Higgs boson the “God particle” – because he is an atheist. The scientist came up with the theory of a sub-atomic particle, since dubbed the Higgs boson, which would explain the mystery of how things have mass. But he wants people to stop referring to it as the “God particle” because he does not believe the particle holding the physical fabric of the universe together is the work of an almighty creator. 

Prof Higgs, 83, who lives in Edinburgh, said: “First of all, I’m an atheist. The second thing is, I know that name was a kind of joke and not a very good one. I think he shouldn’t have done that as it’s so misleading.” The phrase, an allusion to the particle’s importance and elusiveness, was coined for a popular science book from 1993 by Leon Lederman, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, and Dick Teresi, a science writer. 

In the book God particle, Lederman writes: “Why God particle? The publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn particle.” Higgs has become a global celebrity over the past year since the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson, which he predicted in 1964

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The Truth! [Well, almost, captain]

In Klippah, unlike horseshoes, "Almost" usually is enough to get the job done.

Take Yishmael for example; his approach to "religion" and source of his claims to land is his belief that he is close, close enough even, and that equates to victory.

While Israel is in Galus, the "essence" of Torah is somewhat tainted, awaiting the revelation of Torat Moshiach to clarify matters where doubt has arisen, or where the Truth has remained buried within Torat Moshe. This revelation is prophesied in Malachi as Torat Emes. In fact, in places in the Talmud where the Rabbis do not know an answer in a particular matter, the Talmud offers a phrase [in short form] called "Teiku" - "Tishbi [Elijah] will answer questions and difficulties." On that level, the Jewish People will have every tool necessary to perpetuate God's Eternal Rule.

Thus while in exile, there are a lot of areas in the Torah that remain subject for debate, areas that are vital to our existance, future, etc. Among the topics of interest: Biblical Borders [of Geulah], Torah of Geulah/Moshiach themselves, role of the gentile in the future, etc. Moshiach must clarify these matters, or at least the era of. [which per force then Moshiach would be a part of]

Yishmael says: God gave "a" Torah [which the Jews "distorted" he claims] but we don't know its absolute truth...yet neither do the Jews [he says]..so if they aren't on it, and "I" am close, I guess "I" win! This is klippah's strategy: if its not [yet] you, it must be me. [Klippah, i.e. impure people; with or affected by Amalek, the nation who seeks to destroy Holiness]

Every Wisdom or Truth is susceptible to an Amalekite attack, from Torah to science. The "Higgs Boson" search is one area that is famished with Amalekite infrastructure, due to the nature of the prize: being associated with the God Particle of Physics. It allows one to pasken out Creation[ism] while being soaked within his ego...all by being [and selling] "how close he is" while taking advantage of a reality that is not yet known or distinguishable. If this happens in science, it is unfortunate that it happens against Torah as well.

YahooNews:

Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre said on Wednesday they may be able to definitively announce at a conference next March that they had discovered the elusive Higgs boson.

But they dismissed suggestions circulating widely on blogs and even in some science journals that instead of just one type of the elementary particle they might have found a pair.

CERN researchers said in July they had found what appeared to be the particle that gives mass to matter, as imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. But they stopped short of saying for sure it was the Higgs boson, pending further research.

"The latest data we have on this thing we have been watching for the past few months show that it is not simply 'like a Higgs' but is very like a Higgs," said Oliver Buechmuller of the CMS team at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. "The way things are going, by the Moriond meeting we may be able to stop calling it Higgs-like and finally say it is the Higgs," he told Reuters, referring to the annual gathering which will take place at the Italian Alpine resort of La Thuile, 120 kms (75 miles) from CERN, on March 2-9.

Suggestions that there may be two Higgs, a particle that made formation of the universe possible after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, emerged after a progress report by CERN scientists last week. Its definitive discovery that would almost certainly win a Nobel Prize.

Commentators, including one in the journal Scientific American, said differing measurements - so far unexplained - of the new boson's mass that were recorded by ATLAS - a parallel but separate research team to CMS at CERN, indicated there might be twin particles.

"That is quite an exaggeration," said Pauline Gagnon, a scientist with ATLAS. "The facts are so much simpler: we measure one quantity in two different ways and obtain two slightly different answers.

"However, when we combine all the information, we clearly get only one value. Since we have checked all other possibilities, it really looks like a statistical fluctuation. Such things happen." Buechmueller, whose CMS team found no such variation in their measurements, said he agreed there was no special relevance in the ATLAS discrepancy. "It will probably disappear when more data is in and analysed," he added.

The $10-billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-km (17-mile) circular construct deep under the Franco-Swiss border, will shut down for some two years in February to allow a doubling of its power and its capacity to probe cosmic mysteries

 Look Closer. Are you being told the almost truth, or the simply put: Truth. The fine print is where the pudding is, and unfortunately, if the print isnt on the newest iphone app, its not worth the investigation. And for that, Sheker reigns and Truth waits. 

Teiku.

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Iran? Taking Forever - Higgs? Taking Forever...

It seems that everything involving impact towards "End of Days" scenarios is really inching along - not a whole lot of forward progress!

Iran - inching
Higgs Boson - inching
Politics - inching
Euro crisis - inching
Dollar issues - inching
etc etc - inching


Time is speeding up while the affairs of the planet are forever slow! What is going on and where is it leading to?


Here for example, is the latest with the Higgs Boson God Particle. They have not found it by any means, yet only some acknowledge this fact; either way, once decided the impact is enormous in the physical plane of existence. That goes for all of the inyanim going on - Earth changing  - if there would just be a rendering of some sort!


TheManitoban.com:

This year has been an exciting time in the field of particle physics. A few months ago, scientists in China measured theta-13, a previously unknown mathematical parameter that helps explain neutrino oscillations.

In March, physicists from Fermilab analyzing old data from the defunct Tevatron particle accelerator announced they had discovered a promising hint of the Higgs boson. In February, the research director of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said that by the end of the year, “we will either know that a Higgs particle exists or have ruled out the existence of a Standard Model Higgs.”

Since that time there have been even more developments, the news of which has trickled down to the public in a confusing and ludicrously grandiose form. Since we have not yet covered these new advances, here is an update and explanation of what has happened in particle physics over the summer.

In order to confirm a discovery of the Higgs particle, the CERN scientists must achieve two goals. Goal #1 is to verify that there is in fact a particle with the mass they expect the Higgs to have. They do this by firing particles at each other, carefully controlling the energy with which they collide, and measuring the results of the collision. Goal #2 is to check that this particle behaves the way theory predicts – i.e., whether they’ve actually discovered the Higgs boson or some other particle that would call for a rethinking of the Standard Model of particle physics. This involves a lot more complex and long-winded analysis of data.

Early this year, the Fermilab scientists came close to realizing the first goal. The Higgs particle exists only fleetingly, and must be inferred from the presence of other particles it is likely to decay into. Analysis of the Tevatron data showed unusually high numbers of these particles in certain regions, indicating a Higgs with a mass between 115-135 gigaelectronvolts (we use GeV, a unit of energy, to measure the mass of the particles because, by Einstein’s famous equation, mass and energy are essentially the same quantity). This was consistent with the narrower range of 124-126 GeV suggested by preliminary data from the Large Hadron Collider.

The problem with the Tevatron result was that it was not statistically significant. That means that, assuming the Higgs boson did not exist, the probability of seeing these results by random background fluctuation alone was unacceptably high. The excesses measured by Tevatron were 2.2 standard deviations above background expectations. The accepted threshold for a discovery in particle physics is five standard deviations, or approximately a one in three million chance of seeing these results in a world with no Higgs boson.

On July 4 of this year, two CERN particle detecting experiments, ATLAS and CMS, made an announcement: they had discovered, with a significance of five standard deviations, a particle with a mass of around 125.3 GeV. It was a landmark moment in the history of physics, but it is still only half the battle: they have only achieved goal #1.

Goal #2 means more experiments and a hard slog through mountains of data. To this end, the Large Hadron Collider, which had been scheduled for a long shutdown at the end of the year, has had its run extended until February, 2013. It’s just the nature of these discoveries that they do not come in one instantaneous moment of clarity, especially not when the experiment is 27 kilometres (km) long and involves thousands of scientists.

If the Standard Model is definitively confirmed or ruled out, the implications, while far-reaching, will take quite some time to become clear. Various theories will become more or less tenable, long unanswered questions will be solved or superseded, and new questions will arise. The discovery of this particle, whatever it may turn out to be, is certainly important, but we should not blow it out of proportion. No fundamental secrets of the universe have been discovered, no fields of knowledge have been instantly built up or toppled in one fell swoop, and life continues much as it had been.

At least the iPhone 20 is due out soon - as technology certainly isn't putzing around!
And unfortunately, the World would seem to care more about an iPhone 20 than any of the issues that truly matter in this reality. Earth is an ironic arena of Life, that is for sure.

...speaking of the iPhone - stay tuned for more Rabbanan updates of their assuring (forbidden) the smartphone; its a war that must take place ideologically, and is potentially a greater War than Gog V'Magog (in my opinion) - as the smart phone puts Jewish History and integrity to its biggest test that it may ever fight in Olam Hazeh!

...stay tuned (as it seems that's all there is to do )

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The Higgs Fantasy: Cha-Ching!

Higgs Shmiggs

Let's make this perfectly clear and concise: The Higgs Boson God Particle WAS NOT FOUND. What they did find was something that could be the Higgs. This is called "they have a plausible theory" and not "we have the Higgs."
This is where science has gone all wrong - they have poskened out the need to test theories and bring them to a status of proof. For that reason alone, Torah won the race/war against science, because Torah by nature must be proven to move forward.
Money, Power, Prestige, etc fuels the scientist; a far cry from the moral standard of Fearing Hashem.

Now, they want to move physics forward [on the Higgs Premise] with bigger faster colliders and all science based on a giant "maybe."

Remember - this has not been confirmed [the finding of the Higgs], but they can't afford to have it NOT be "found." They in unison want the Higgs found, and they are throwing physics [and anyone who opposes] under the bus to get a blank check.

Around the same time of the Higgs was the "discovery" that a particle moves faster than light. It turned out to be a false flag, but the very concept was heavily scrutinized. But where is the scrutiny for the Higgs?!?! -----SCAM-OLA!

At any rate, this is a scam, a ripoff, probably tax dollars, and an outright lie. For this Torah will gain [in my way of seeing it] a massive aliyah in wisdom; the more they cheat, the more Hashem itches to bring Moshiach and his Torah to revelation.

The Australian:

SCIENTISTS at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - or CERN - are drawing up plans to scrap the giant Large Hadron Collider that found the Higgs boson and replace it with an even bigger machine designed to hunt down more exotic particles.

One idea is to remove the $4.6 billion particle accelerator and build a more powerful one in the same tunnels under Geneva in Switzerland. Another is to build an entirely new accelerator up to 80km in circumference, three times the size of the LHC.

Such a machine is likely to cost several billion dollars, shared between CERN's 20 member states, and would likely be built sometime after 2025.

It follows CERN's July announcement that it had found the elusive Higgs boson, the fundamental particle that gives matter its mass.

The idea that such a particle might exist was put forward by Peter Higgs, emeritus professor of physics at Edinburgh University, in 1964.

He is now 83 and many physicists hope that he, along with CERN and perhaps fellow physicist Francois Englert, 79, whose own 1964 paper broke similar ground, will be rewarded with a Nobel Prize this year.

However, they are also concerned about the 44 years that elapsed between Higgs's proposal and the construction of a machine capable of finding his particle - which is why they are already drawing up plans for the LHC's successor.

The designs for a new machine are part of a paper written by 18 scientists, including John Ellis, CERN's former head of theoretical physics.

It said: "The new machine could be installed in the LHC tunnel . . .. Alternatively, it could be installed in a new, longer tunnel, using a tunnel circumference of 80km." The suggestion will be discussed by the European Strategy Preparatory Group in Krakow in Poland this week.

Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at University College London, who represents Britain on the group, said finding the Higgs was just the beginning.

"It means we have a wild new frontier of physics to explore. Now we need to find out far more about it. We can do some of that work by upgrading the LHC, but in the end it will need a more powerful machine."

The timescale and technological challenges are huge. The LHC was first proposed in 1983 and was finally built in 2008, 25 years later.

Much of that delay was due to the cutting-edge technologies that had to be developed to control and focus a tiny beam of particles packed with the energy punch of a car travelling at 2500km/h.

Such a machine might help resolve some of the questions raised by Albert Einstein, who could not reconcile the forces operating at the level of atoms with the force of gravity, which governs the movement of stars and planets.

Meanwhile, the most immediate question for physicists is who might be in line for a Nobel Prize over the Higgs discovery. Higgs is the obvious candidate, but he was beaten into print in 1964 by Englert and Robert Brout, both Belgian, who put forward a similar theory, albeit without predicting a particle.

Brout died last year, but there are also three other physicists, Tom Kibble of Imperial College London, and Americans Gerry Guralnik and Dick Hagen, who published a similar idea soon after - with Kibble going on to build the experimental model on which the LHC was based.

 

 

May Hashem's response be: Welcome to Atzilus [by Torah scholars - Divine Physics!]

 

Welcome to Atzilus

משיח צדקינו

התשע''ג

ב''ביאת משיח

5773



 

 

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Pshat: Like A Dog Chasing His Tail

The [mad] Scientist on the Prowl

In Torah, finding a Pshat to any matter of Torah is usually step one, and this first step will lead to a lifelong search for the Truth to the commited scholar. More often than not, even though his new pshat may have "answered" his desires, he will seek a more encompassing solution. This is where science and Torah have a schism: Torah always seeks the best answer, until absolute Truth, while the Scientist is satisfied from elementary clearance on the issue.

And now science is working on its conclusion of their pshat: that they have poskened a Universe, one of which God did not create. This is all the more silly being that they aren't even acknowledging the pshat of Bereishit, rather they are taking a pshita [simple and beyond obvious] at best...as if to say, that God introduces his Book of Creation with a poor man's pshita?! [ that a grade-schooler created the Universe]

It just doesn't seem to me, to be that hard to think to work science (if you are that compeleld to) into Bereishit. Science maybe would be truly cool if they would recognize Bereishit: go for a real pshat - people [!] and stop with the pshita's!


HuffingtonPost:

Over the past few centuries, science can be said to have gradually chipped away at the traditional grounds for believing in God. Much of what once seemed mysterious — the existence of humanity, the life-bearing perfection of Earth, the workings of the universe — can now be explained by biology, astronomy, physics and other domains of science.

Although cosmic mysteries remain, Sean Carroll, a theoretical cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology, says there's good reason to think science will ultimately arrive at a complete understanding of the universe that leaves no grounds for God whatsoever.

Carroll argues that God's sphere of influence has shrunk drastically in modern times, as physics and cosmology have expanded in their ability to explain the origin and evolution of the universe. "As we learn more about the universe, there's less and less need to look outside it for help," he told Life's Little Mysteries.

He thinks the sphere of supernatural influence will eventually shrink to nil. But could science really eventually explain everything?

Beginning of time

Gobs of evidence have been collected in favor of the Big Bang model of cosmology, or the notion that the universe expanded from a hot, infinitely dense state to its current cooler, more expansive state over the course of 13.7 billion years. Cosmologists can model what happened from 10^-43 seconds after the Big Bang until now, but the split-second before that remains murky. Some theologians have tried to equate the moment of the Big Bang with the description of the creation of the world found in the Bible and other religious texts; they argue that something — i.e., God — must have initiated the explosive event.

However, in Carroll's opinion, progress in cosmology will eventually eliminate any perceived need for a Big Bang trigger-puller.

As he explained in a recent article in the "Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), a foremost goal of modern physics is to formulate a working theory that describes the entire universe, from subatomic to astronomical scales, within a single framework. Such a theory, called "quantum gravity," will necessarily account for what happened at the moment of the Big Bang. Some versions of quantum gravity theory that have been proposed by cosmologists predict that the Big Bang, rather than being the starting point of time, was just "a transitional stage in an eternal universe," in Carroll's words. For example, one model holds that the universe acts like a balloon that inflates and deflates over and over under its own steam. If, in fact, time had no beginning, this shuts the book on Genesis. [Big Bang Was Actually a Phase Change, New Theory Says]

Other versions of quantum gravity theory currently being explored by cosmologists predict that time did start at the Big Bang. But these versions of events don't cast a role for God either. Not only do they describe the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but they also account for how time was able to get underway in the first place. As such, these quantum gravity theories still constitute complete, self-contained descriptions of the history of the universe. "Nothing in the fact that there is a first moment of time, in other words, necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment," Carroll wrote.

Another way to put it is that contemporary physics theories, though still under development and awaiting future experimental testing, are turning out to be capable of explaining why Big Bangs occur, without the need for a supernatural jumpstart. As Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a conference talk earlier this year, "The Big Bang could've occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there. With the laws of physics, you can get universes."

Parallel universes

But there are other potential grounds for God. Physicists have observed that many of the physical constants that define our universe, from the mass of the electron to the density of dark energy, are eerily perfect for supporting life. Alter one of these constants by a hair, and the universe becomes unrecognizable. "For example, if the mass of the neutron were a bit larger (in comparison to the mass of the proton) than its actual value, hydrogen would not fuse into deuterium and conventional stars would be impossible," Carroll said. And thus, so would life as we know it. [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]

Theologians often seize upon the so-called "fine-tuning" of the physical constants as evidence that God must have had a hand in them; it seems he chose the constants just for us. But contemporary physics explains our seemingly supernatural good luck in a different way.

Some versions of quantum gravity theory, including string theory, predict that our life-giving universe is but one of an infinite number of universes that altogether make up the multiverse. Among these infinite universes, the full range of values of all the physical constants are represented, and only some of the universes have values for the constants that enable the formation of stars, planets and life as we know it. We find ourselves in one of the lucky universes (because where else?). [Parallel Universes Explained in 200 Words]

Some theologians counter that it is far simpler to invoke God than to postulate the existence of infinitely many universes in order to explain our universe's life-giving perfection. To them, Carroll retorts that the multiverse wasn't postulated as a complicated way to explain fine-tuning. On the contrary, it follows as a natural consequence of our best, most elegant theories.

Once again, if or when these theories prove correct, "a multiverse happens, whether you like it or not," he wrote. And there goes God's hand in things. [Poll: Do You Believe in God?]

The reason why

Another role for God is as a raison d'être for the universe. Even if cosmologists manage to explain how the universe began, and why it seems so fine-tuned for life, the question might remain why there is something as opposed to nothing. To many people, the answer to the question is God. According to Carroll, this answer pales under scrutiny. There can be no answer to such a question, he says.

"Most scientists … suspect that the search for ultimate explanations eventually terminates in some final theory of the world, along with the phrase 'and that's just how it is,'" Carroll wrote. People who find this unsatisfying are failing to treat the entire universe as something unique — "something for which a different set of standards is appropriate." A complete scientific theory that accounts for everything in the universe doesn't need an external explanation in the same way that specific things within the universe need external explanations. In fact, Carroll argues, wrapping another layer of explanation (i.e., God) around a self-contained theory of everything would just be an unnecessary complication. (The theory already works without God.)

Judged by the standards of any other scientific theory, the "God hypothesis" does not do very well, Carroll argues. But he grants that "the idea of God has functions other than those of a scientific hypothesis."

Psychology research suggests that belief in the supernatural acts as societal glue and motivates people to follow the rules; further, belief in the afterlife helps people grieve and staves off fears of death.

"We're not designed at the level of theoretical physics," Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan, told LiveScience last year. What matters to most people "is what happens at the human scale, relationships to other people, things we experience in a lifetime."

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Think a Little Bigger; Out of the Box Maybe Too
בראשית ברא אלקים
...יום אחד
ו''שבעים פנים לתורה

 

 

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Jurassic Tumah of Tumahs: Dear Mabul...

The Wooly Mammoth

The Woolly Mammoth is closer than ever to being cloned and armed with a return to existence.

The Torah says cloning is wrong and is forbidden, and it would seem that this science was one of the wisdoms of Pre-Flood times, and was a source of great evil. "Genetics" - in every respect were common to tamper with and a source of great evil. It seems society is dying to bring the most wicked of times.

Is the Woolly Mammoth a literal Pandora's Box when they open it? Perhaps it will unleash [even genetically] havoc in ways [metaphysical even] that frankly science never thought of. It is the Torah mind you, that explains just how corrupt things were before the Flood - which I am willing to bet that is what this "dinosaur" [reference intended] carries around on its neck.


YahooNews:

Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said Tuesday.

Russia's North-Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 328 feet (100 meters) underground during a summer expedition in the northeastern province of Yakutia.

Expedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bones and fragments but not living cells.

Grigoryev told the online newspaper Vzglyad it would take months of research to determine whether they have indeed found the cells.

"Only after thorough laboratory research will it be known whether these are living cells or not," he said, adding that would take until the end of the year at the earliest.

Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on Russia's Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast.

Scientists already have deciphered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth from balls of mammoth hair found frozen in the Siberian permafrost. Some believe it's possible to recreate the prehistoric animal if they find living cells in the permafrost.

Those who succeed in recreating an extinct animal could claim a "Jurassic Park prize," the concept of which is being developed by the X Prize Foundation that awarded a 2004 prize for the first private spacecraft.

 

It makes sense that Russia is involved, as I am willing to bet that they are the results of the same type of experiment going back to Noah as a type of tried "4th son of Noah." The World has always loved the knowledge that comes with genetics, i.e. "blood and seed" - as Atzilus is governed by these rules, only in a total spiritual sense. Thus Man in Asiah wants this knowledge. This was one reason of why Kain went for Able's blood: "to know his blood." This is truly the gateway to unprecedented evil, intentional or not - thats what you get when you to places that have restricted access.

 

Take Your Woolly Whatever and Leave!

 

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Yisrael: To Wrestle With God - AND PREVAIL!

The God Particle: the ultimate match between Man and The Divine.

It has been said that the God Particle was found, and now the real truth is beginning to come out to the open.

Chances are its real discovery is something that is completely non-scientific, but in a truthful way. Today's Physics is being blasted as having gone from scientific method to the pure speculative approach in models of THEORY.

But perhaps theory is not only the soup du jour, but the answer itself? What if the Higgs' proof of [mathematical] existence is due in part to the necessity of the revelation of consciousness. Meaning: the evidence that it exists, is the map of consciousness existing itself. This would be the ultimate expression of micro/macro with a hint of spirituality laced within. The Gra states that in the end, Physics and Kabalah will merge.

The Higgs proves Gravity in the universe. What if the universe IS consciousness then?! [as Torah seems to suggest, i.e. that in the beginning, God created light - would that then not be the God Particle? And as kabalah dictates light becomes Gashmi - is the secret of Creation; all is light in the eyes of kabalah, only it becomes physical.

With theories in kabalah, physics will soon easily merge with Torah, as physics is already in Torah, people just haven't realized it yet.


Moneylife:

 

There is so much excitement at CERN centre about their having got the Higg’s Boson in their experiment. Obviously they have to succeed as they have sunk billions of dollars in their experiments to find the basic building blocks of our universe. Hurray! They tell us that they are 99.999% sure! Why not 100%, though is a million dollar question? The obliging media has gone to town already saying that the particle, which was originally called the Goddamn particle as the originator of this concept was an atheist. Peter Ware Higgs was a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Edinburgh University. He was the one who gave the electroweak theory of mass for particles, in the 1960s especially of the W-Z Bosons, the most sought after particle in particle physics. American Nobel Laureate physicist, Leon Lederman coined the word “God particle” as his publisher did not like Goddamn particle of his choice.

Human consciousness talks about a collective expectation effect on some of these experiments where hundreds of minds intensely want to achieve the goal. Intention positivity is a known entity. The researchers have not seen the particle at all as the particles cannot be seen. They are talking about statistical circumstantial evidence of the God particle in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider where trillions of particles are colliding with one another. They are talking about raising the statistical possibility to five Sigma level of probability. That is not the same as seeing the particle. Carl Sagan wrote that “at the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre and counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from nonsense.”

The next stumbling block would be to prove that the particle that they claim to have seen IS the God particle that they have promised to us. The collision of those particles have released enormous amount of energy in the CERN collider. If the particle releases energy then this particle cannot be the God particle, the building block of the universe. The God particle cannot lose energy. It has to stabilize the world. If, as they have shown in their experiment, their particle, which they claim is the God particle, has released so much energy it could not be the building block of our universe. In that case our world would have been destroyed millions of years ago. The universe has survived eight billion years so far. Therefore any particle to qualify to be the building block should be indestructible. Does the particle they claim to have found in the CERN reactor remain the same in mass and structure after releasing so much of energy? This does not seem likely. The CERN experiment has shown release of that kind of energy.

Now that we know that energy is just the vibrations of matter; the two are inseparable. In addition, all the energy that science knows today is just about 5% of matter. The large 95% is unknown to us. In this scenario any particle like the one they think as the fundamental building block could not be confirmed. All that we know of stars, galaxies and planets constitute just about 5% of matter. Where is the other matter?

The CERN scientists also tried to pull a long one on the gullible public by declaring that the God particle that they claim to have found would tell us about the origin of this world! This is an unscientific claim, to say the least. Clearly the road to find the fundamental building block of this universe is not going to be easy, if not impossible. The CERN route definitely is not the correct one as of now. Hawking’s predictions seem to be coming true that the God particle would never be found. One could always take shelter under the fact that Hawking as a cosmologist is only dealing with large things like the universe, while the particle physicists deal with subatomic particles that are so small that one of them can never comfortably talk about the other.

The right route would, perhaps be, to define energy as motion of particles. The two are inseparable. In that case the fundamental blocks, called the superstrings, with its nested generalised fractal structure, should be indestructible. Otherwise, our universe would perish sooner than later. All these and more could be incorporated into the Grand Unified Theory. However, not finding the God particle might be sad for Peter Higgs, as without that theoretical particle there will be no weight for mass. Particles would then be flying around at the speed of light. In fact, years ago when Stephen Hawking predicted that the God particle will never be found, Higgs was very much upset and he is said to have written an article criticizing Hawking in The Scotsman. Normally Higgs was always polite and gentlemanly but he seems to have been so much upset that he directly attacked Hawking in his article.

In this whole drama the thing we Indians could enjoy most is the rejuvenation of the word BOSON, named after Satyendranath Bose FRS, Padma Vibhushana, who was given the credit by a good friend and a contemporary physicist, Paul Dirac. Bose was a mathematical physicist who helped to develop the Bose-Einstein Statistics and the Bose-Einstein Condensate. Paul Dirac, a British physicist, named the particles which obeyed the Bose-Einstein statistics as Bosons. Those days Quantum kitchen helped the particle physicists to pull out hundreds of particles which remind one of the way a magician pulls out rabbits from his hat. That era has passed. The particle-wave confusion could be put to rest now for good. Has the much awaited God particle also succumbed to the famous Uncertainty Principle of Werner Heisenberg? Time only will tell us the truth. Any truth that science claims to find can only be A truth and never THE truth. Is God playing dice with the world?

“Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal”—George Bernard Shaw

[- Torah would be when this imagination becomes sechel!]

It Probably Comes Down To TIme: בראשית

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2012: The Galactic Center and Geulah

The major theory behind 2012 is the Earth and its crossing of the Galactic Center from the Milky Way.

Read on to find out what the Galactic Center is doing in today's news! Sounds like it could be exciting God Willing! - [for scientists at least; but hoping for Geulah scenarios though]


YahooNews.com:

Energetic light seen radiating from the center of the Milky Way may be the best evidence yet of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to be hiding throughout the universe.

A new study has found a strong signal of gamma-rays — light of a very short wavelength — coming from the middle of our galaxy, which may be the result of exploding dark matter.

Scientists think dark matter, which seemingly makes up the majority of matter in the universe, is made of particles called WIMPs ("weakly interacting massive particles"). And WIMPs, when they get very close to other WIMPs, should annihilate each other, because these particles are thought to be their own antiparticles. (When particles of matter and their antimatter counterparts meet, they destroy each other.) In the dense center of the Milky Way, enough WIMPs should exist that many bump into each other, exploding into pure energy that gives rise to other particles and, eventually, gamma-rays.

An abundance of gamma-rays is exactly what scientists see when looking toward the center of our galaxy with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In the new study, researchers found a definitive signal of gamma-rays that couldn't be traced to any known object in this region. [No WIMPS in Space? - NASA Scans For Dark Matter | Video] 'Something new'

"It's definitely something new and shining in the gamma-ray there, and it's not attributable to the existing sources in the catalog," said University of California, Irvine astrophysicist Kevork Abazajian, co-author of a paper reporting the findings submitted to the journal Physical Review D.

Abazajian, with his UC Irvine colleague Manoj Kaplinghat, searched for this light using Fermi data taken between 2008 and 2012. Previous studies by Dan Hooper, a scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the University of Chicago, also found evidence for this gamma-ray radiation, but other follow-up searches came up empty.

Abazajian said his study used the most complete data set yet and analyzed it with a comprehensive analysis specially tuned for investigating gamma-ray light in a crowded region.

"Definitely, definitely, there is a source," Abazajian told SPACE.com. "This is definitely not just a fluctuation." However, whether this source was created by annihilating dark matter particles is somewhat less certain. It's also possible, Abazajian said, that a large group of dense, spinning stars called pulsars could be releasing the light. However, he said, three characteristics of the detected gamma-ray radiation — its rate of emission, the variety of particular wavelengths of the light (its spectrum), and the overall shape of the emission — are all consistent with predictions for dark matter annihilation.

"I think it could be a very big finding," Abazajian said. "When I came across this, I was like, 'Holy cow, this is so consistent with the dark matter interpretation in many ways.' But until you can rule out the astrophysical potential sources for something similar, it's not going to be a smoking gun." Ruling out alternatives

Fermilab's Hooper, for his part, is even more confident that scientists finally are seeing the elusive signature of dark matter. "If you make a comparison to what they found and what we've been talking about — we're looking at the same source," Hooper said. "I still think dark mater annihilation is the easiest way to explain the signal. I think the signal is too spatially concentrated to be coming from pulsars."

Hooper acknowledged that many astrophysicists are skeptical. "There's vigorous debate going on about the astrophysical alternatives to explain this signal," he said. "I'm of the opinion that those are difficult to make work."

Many experts are waiting for scientists in the official Fermi telescope collaboration to weigh in with their own analysis of the radiation at the center of the galaxy. "We will have results to report of this soon," said UC Irvine astrophysicist Simona Murgia, a member of the Fermi collaboration galactic center analysis team. Murgia praised the study by Abazajian and Kaplinghat. "This is good work and the authors have considered a number of plausible interpretations" for the data, she wrote in an email.

"I can only emphasize that it is very difficult to disentangle all the different contributions to the observed data in this region of the sky, and I think more work needs to be done to make a definitive statement," she added. Dwarf galaxies

For confirmation that dark matter has really been found at the center of the Milky Way, scientists may have to look outside the galaxy to the small dwarf galaxies orbiting it.

Theory predicts that WIMPs, if they exist, should be annihilating each other in the centers of those satellites, too. If the same type of gamma-ray emission can be observed in these galaxies, dark matter would be strongly implicated, Abazajian said. However, studies of such dwarf galaxies have so far turned up essentially no gamma-rays.

"The real smoking gun to show if this is dark matter annihilation or not is to look deeply at these low background sources and see if you see this signal or not," he said. "If you were able to see the same rate, spectrum or morphology in several sources, that would be a real abundance of evidence."

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The Greek Mekubal Strikes Back

Science is convinced that they are the new Mekubalim.
The ancient battle rages on: Chachmas Yavan vs. Torah
Physics already is chasing God [Particles]; now they want "The Meaning of Life!"

Just Learn Torah Amigos!
You don't need to send Mars rovers spending insane amounts of dollars - you can/should invest that money in yeshivot!

I Promise if you put that much effort into Torah to "find the meaning of life" - you will!
The question is, why aren't the Jews even trying?!

The Vilna Gaon predicts in Kol HaTor that in Zman Geulah, physics and kabalah will unite. At least the two are starting to recognize each other, even if light years apart. [pun intended]

CSMonitor.com:

Saturn has its famous rings and Jupiter is the granddaddy of the solar system, but no planet has entranced earthlings quite like Mars.

Humans have launched 40 spacecraft to the Red Planet, lured by the prospect that life might once have existed in what is now dry rocks and sand. The latest machine to make the journey is NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, a hulking, souped-up lab-on-wheels that will plunge toward the Martian surface next week.

But even as excitement builds, some wonder: Is Mars exploration a good investment?

It certainly doesn’t come cheap. It’s hard to calculate a total price tag, but over the 48 years that NASA has been launching missions to Mars, Americans have spent a significant sum. The Viking missions alone cost nearly $1 billion — in 1970s dollars. The twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity cost a total of about $1 billion to build and operate as well.

Curiosity, as the Mars Science Laboratory rover is known, is over budget at $2.5 billion.

Some in the federal government have suggested it’s time to roll back the spending. President Barack Obama’s fiscal plan for 2013 would cut NASA’s funds for Mars exploration from $587 million to $360 million.

Proponents insist Mars science is vital for the U.S. More visits to our next-door neighbor could answer lingering questions about Earth’s history, reinforce U.S. prestige and get more children interested in science.

It also could bring humanity closer to answering the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe?

“It’s the search for the meaning of life,” said Alden Munson, a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a science and technology think tank based in Arlington, Va.

America’s love affair with Mars can be traced to astronomer Percival Lowell, who turned his telescope to the Red Planet in the 1890s and thought he saw an intricate system of canals that must have been built by intelligent beings. He never found them, of course, but Martians became a science fiction mainstay.

Earthlings got their first up-close view of Mars’ rocky surface in 1965, when Mariner 4 flew by and photographed a surface that appeared as dead as the moon’s — lacking water or active geology, two prerequisites for life.

But later missions, from the Mariner 9 orbiter to Spirit and Opportunity, helped establish Mars as a useful comparative laboratory for studying climate and geophysics on Earth. They demonstrated that the planet was once warmer and wetter than it is now. Long ago, it may have been a hospitable cradle for life.

When planetary scientists assembled recently at the behest of the National Academies to set research priorities for the next decade, the search for conditions that would allow life to emerge on Mars topped the list.

“If there’s life or past life on Mars, it means the chances that life exists somewhere else are much higher,” said David Paige, who studies the moon and terrestrial planets at UCLA. If Mars is barren, “it might make Earth more unique than we thought.”

Some experts question the wisdom of focusing so intently on a single planet. Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is covered with an ice-encrusted ocean, could have the potential to harbor life; Saturn’s moon Titan, rich in organic chemistry, might as well.

“It’s like the person who loses their keys and only looks for them below the streetlight,” said David Jewitt, a planetary scientist at UCLA who studies comets.

But funds for planetary science are limited — and even those who favor a broader search admit that Mars remains the most practical site to explore.

A mission to Europa, for example, would take about six years to reach its destination. Curiosity’s trip to Mars takes about eight months.

Europa has other drawbacks too: For one, particles flung into space by Jupiter’s magnetic field would likely fry a spacecraft’s electronics in a matter of weeks, said Richard Greenberg, who studies the frozen moon at the University of Arizona.

“Personally, I love Europa,” he said. “But objectively, both it and Mars are great places to look for life.”

Regardless of whether life can be found beyond Earth, Mars exploration boosts U.S. prestige.

“A lot of the warmest feelings people have had around the world have had to do with the space program,” Munson said. “It’s hard to put a value on that.”

Space exploration is the ultimate status symbol. China and India have signaled their technological aspirations by establishing space programs. So have Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Israel, Mexico and dozens of other countries.

“I’m afraid if we step back, it will be decades before we get back to Mars,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., whose district includes NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, where Mars missions are based. “We have the expertise now. No other countries have been able to do this.”

NASA has outperformed other space agencies by a wide margin, completing 13 successful missions (against five failures) since 1964. The Russians have had particularly bad luck, with 15 failed missions and only four partial successes.

The amount of money Americans devote to Mars is tiny compared to annual expenditures on other NASA projects, said Munson, who noted that in 2011 alone, the agency spent more than $4 billion on the International Space Station and the fleet of space shuttles.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that is designed to help scientists study the very early universe, is costing NASA $8.8 billion.

Even that price tag is dwarfed by the more than $600 billion the Defense Department will spend in 2012.

Jewitt put it like this: Americans spend more than $7 billion a year on potato chips. “We’re talking about a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things,” Paige said.

Still, in the heat of an election season, some find it hard to justify Mars spending as long as the deficit remains high and the basic needs of many citizens aren’t met.

This time around, in the run-up to Curiosity’s high-profile landing, it’s hard to find people willing to criticize Mars science in public. But back in 2004, when President George W. Bush was pushing an ambitious plan that included manned missions to the Red Planet, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut (then a Democrat) said the billions of dollars NASA would require would be better spent “right here on Earth” on health care, education and domestic security.

Even those who’ve caught the Mars bug and are excited about Curiosity worry that with the new rover, NASA has “put all the eggs in one basket,” said Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and founder of the MarsSociety, which advocates for manned missions to the planet.

When NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander both failed in 1999, work was already under way on several other missions that turned out to be successful, Zubrin said. But there’s not much waiting in the wings this time around.

Plans to send a lander to scoop up Martian soil and return it to Earth, as well as to visit Europa, have been postponed to save money.

After Curiosity, NASA’s planetary scientists have only one major mission lined up: an orbiter called MAVEN, which will explore the Martian atmosphere and climate. It is scheduled for launch in 2013.

Its All Here!

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Higgs Boson: To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before!

Finding the Higgs Boson could mean unlocking Physics' door - boldly going where no Man has gone before...

So where is Moshiach - before the World becomes like a bad Star Trek episode that is sponsored by Apple?!


YahooNews.com:

Since its first appearance on the original "Star Trek" series in 1966, the starship Enterprise has become a symbol for space travel. Recently, an anonymous engineerclaimed that an approximation of this iconic ship could be built in the next two decades. But just how close is mankind to zipping through the stars at warp speed? On the website BuildTheEnterprise.org, a self-proclaimed engineer who identifies himself only as "BTE-Dan" suggests that a working facsimile of the iconic ship could be built and launched over the next 20 to 30 years. The ship would require a few modifications, but would look a great deal like Captain Kirk's famous ship.

Built in space, the ship would never visit the surface of any moon or planet, and so would never need to reach the high speeds necessary to escape surface gravity. The engines would be powered by nuclear reactors onboard the ship, and use argon rather than xenon for propellant, saving a few hundred billion dollars in cost. As an added bonus, BTE-Dan notes that argon can be mined from the atmosphere of Mars. Although such a ship would a lack a warp drive (the technology that allows the "Star Trek" version to zip between stars across the galaxy), it could reach the moon in three days and Mars in three months. BTE-Dan suggests it might function as a combination of a space station and a space port, allowing humans to orbit planets and moons within the solar system while using a "universal lander" to travel to and from their surfaces.

Such a spaceship could house 1,000 people within its gravity wheel. [The Top 10 Star Trek Technologies] The entire ship would be more than 3,000 feet (almost 1 kilometer) long, with its central disk making up nearly half its length. According to the website, much of the technology needed to build the ship described is within our grasp, including the rotating gravity wheel, which could be suspended by electromagnets within a vacuum to eliminate mechanical wear and tear. Also easily within reach, he claims, are a 1.5 GWe (gigawatt electrical) nuclear reactor safe to carry in a spacecraft, and composite materials that would save mass, add strength and improve radiation shielding.

Design challenges BTE-Dan describes himself as a systems and electrical engineer who has spent the past 30 years employed at a Fortune 500 company. He is presently declining interviews. Though the prospect of a real-life Enterprise is appealing, the proposed ship is not without problems. Adam Crowl, an engineer with Icarus Interstellar Inc., a nonprofit foundation dedicated to interstellar exploration, pointed out that a spaceship built with a sufficiently powerful nuclear reactor would need large thermal radiators, ruining the classic Enterprise look. "Engineering physics doesn't respect our aesthetics," he told SPACE.com by email. BTE-Dan's ship is essentially an iconic replica of the famous starship, and may not be practical. "I would love to see 1,000 people go to Mars, but I need convincing that they need to be on the Enterprise to do so," said Crowl. Other engineers said the similarities between BTE-Dan's ship and the Enterprise are only skin-deep. "He wants to build something using foreseeable technology that just looks like the Enterprise," said Marc Millis, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center. "It's nowhere close to being what the Enterprise is."

Still, the site received so many visits soon after its launch that it crashed, revealing how appealing the idea is to many people. Today's technology Though some aspects of the Enterprise are far out of reach today, many are within our grasp, and some are part of our daily lives. Sliding doors, futuristic in the 1960s, now welcome almost every grocery store visitor, and today's flip-open cellphones resemble Star Trek's tricorders. The touch-screen devices ubiquitous today even look like those used in the 1990s episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." "If you had shown someone an iPad in the 1990s and told them it was 23rd century technology, they would have believed you," Richard Obousy, co-founder and president of Icarus Interstellar Inc., told SPACE.com.

Advances with 3D printers also provide opportunities for voyages through space, allowing the replication of parts while using materials found at the destination. Andreas Hein, an aerospace engineer also with Icarus Interstellar, suggested that it might not be long before such printers make food similar to the way meals were synthesized by replicators on the Enterprise. Additionally, engineers working at NASA's Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, informally known as Eagleworks, are working on a Q-thruster that bears a striking resemblance to the impulse engines on the Enterprise. Nuclear woes Millis suggested the next step in rocket propulsion will likely include utilizing a nuclear power source, an option that is stymied by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

He acknowledged that the barriers aren't just political ones, as people are nervous about the idea of launching nuclear rockets from Earth's surface, despite the fact that it could be done safely. Obousy agreed that nuclear rockets could provide the necessary thrust, pointing to the large, multibillion-dollar projects around the world seeking ways to unlock fusion as an energy source. Of course, such projects primarily focus on powering homes and cities on Earth, but once unlocked, fusion could be used to travel through the stars. [Gallery: Visions of Future Human Spaceflight] "In terms of propulsion technology, fusion engines are potentially within a generation or two," Obousy said, though he added that sudden technological jumps could accelerate the process. Visiting a planet without being seen may also be not too far out of reach. "We're doing things with meta-materials that'll allow practical cloaking, maybe even invisibility," Crowl said. Gravity presents one of the greatest challenges: The Enterprise of television and the movies lacks a gravity wheel, instead utilizing synthetic gravity. According to Millis, if we could find a way to master gravitational forces, such technology could also be utilized in tractor beams or the ship's propulsion. Warp speed ahead "Star Trek"-like propulsion remains a key problem.

Fans are familiar with the warp drive, which accelerated the ship faster than the speed of light and allowed its crew to zip between stars. Such travel defies our present understanding of physics. "I think this is one of the most important aspects that prevents an Enterprise-type ship in the near future," Hein said. Obousy agreed. "One of the staples of these warp drives is that they require an exotic form of energy that we have not been able to create in the labs, dark energy being the salient example," he said. Dark energy is the unexplained force behind the accelerated expansion of the universe. Scientists don't yet understand what it is, which makes it a challenge to use in propulsion. A warp drive would require an enormous amount of energy. Theoretical calculations using dark energy to move a starship would require more energy than that contained within the planet Jupiter, making it uneconomical.

  In the "Star Trek" universe, the warp drive relied on antimatter. When matter and antimatter annihilate one another, the energy produced is immense. Though such an energy source could conceivably power the ship, it is available only briefly. Crowl pointed out that antimatter technology itself is developing rapidly. Ultra-high intensity lasers may soon allow it to be directly created from energy, and useful amounts may be trapped in the magnetic fields of planets like Earth and Saturn. But, like dark energy, antimatter may prove to be more trouble than it's worth. "Using antimatter right now is very expensive," Millis said. "But that doesn't mean that it always will be." When mankind finally travels to the stars, we may have to forgo warp speed for something else, such as the manipulation of space-time itself. According to Albert Einstein, nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. But Millis points out that such limits do not necessarily apply to space-time.

Theories in peer-reviewed journals explore the possibility of surrounding a craft with a bubble of space-time that expands and contracts, perhaps allowing it to exceed the speed of light. "It's the difference between moving a pencil across a piece of paper or moving the whole paper," Millis said. [Video: Warp Drives and Worm Holes] Beam me up, Scotty Another potential challenge to recreating the "Star Trek" universe is the system of matter transmission.

The crew often traveled to a planet by transporter, beaming from the Enterprise directly to the surface by way of machines that could scan a body, atom-by-atom, and then recreate it in another place. Recent advances have been made in quantum teleportation, but Obousy and Millis both stressed the difference from "Star Trek"-style travel. In quantum teleportation, "it's not the same photon you started out with, but a replica," said Obousy. Such travel would require enormous precision.

  "If you were going to recreate a human being transported from one place to another, you'd want to make sure everything's in the exact place," he said. Millis suggested that, rather than matter transmission, scientists might one day learn how to utilize very small wormholes for travel. "Of course, if you put mass through it, it might make the wormhole collapse," he noted. Ultimately, the greatest challenge to replicating the Star Trek journeys may not come from the technological front. "One of the things that I really liked about watching [the show] was the very good behavior of the crew," Millis said.

"The prejudices and petty human differences that make up so much of television are pretty much absent. When I think about relative impossibilities, I think it will be easier to make technology for the starship Enterprise than to finally make humans behave that honorably."

Interestingly enough, it is the Higgs that allows for these future realities to happen.
Moshiach becomes all the more imperative ASAP.

Try the Right Way: Torah!!

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And God said Let There Be Higgs Already!

It looks like it comes down to the 4th of July [2012]: will Physics celebrate its personal Independence Day?

The God Particle will either be lost or found so it seems.
Like the rest of Geulah News: shlepping along we go!

DailyMail.com:

Scientists at Cern will announce that the elusive Higgs boson 'God Particle' has been found at a press conference next week, it is believed. Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event on Wednesday - sparking speculation that the particle has been discovered. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to say they are 99.99 per cent certain it has been found - which is known as 'four sigma' level.

Peter Higgs, the Edinburgh University emeritus professor of physics that the particle is named after, is among those who have been called to the press conference in Switzerland. The management at Cern want the two teams of scientists to reach the 'five sigma' level of certainty with their results - so they are 99.99995 per cent sure - such is the significance of the results. Tom Kibble, 79, the emeritus professor of physics at Imperial College London, has also been invited but is unable to attend. He told the Sunday Times: 'My guess is that is must be a pretty positive result for them to be asking us out there.' The Higgs boson is regarded as the key to understanding the universe. Physicists say its job is to give the particles that make up atoms their mass. Without this mass, these particles would zip though the cosmos at the speed of light, unable to bind together to form the atoms that make up everything in the universe, from planets to people. The collider, housed in an 18-mile tunnel buried deep underground near the French-Swiss border, smashes beams of protons – sub-atomic particles – together at close to the speed of light, recreating the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. If the physicists’ theory is correct, a few Higgs bosons should be created in every trillion collisions, before rapidly decaying.

This decay would leave behind a ‘footprint’ that would show up as a bump in their graphs. However, despite 1,600 trillion collisions being created in the tunnel - there have been fewer than 300 potential Higgs particles. Now it is thought that two separate teams of scientists, who run independent experiments in secret from each other, have both uncovered evidence of the particle. However, the two groups, CMS and ATLAS, are expected to stop short of confirming its existence.

An Abyss  Called Geulah

If the entire World is now waiting...[which they are]...One must assume that there is something [massive] and worth waiting for - World-Scale! Moshiach 5773?

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