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After a false start hindered by a stray bit of metal, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has re-started sending high-energy particles zipping through 16.7 miles of the underground tunnels. This is final testing - full power and actual collisions won't start for another month or so. Here's a good overview of the system upgrades and what new experiments might find.

http://www.nature.com/news/lhc-2-0-a-ne ... NatureNews

Here's something else the LHC might find.
Now scientists at Cern in Switzerland believe they might find miniature black holes which would reveal the existence of a parallel universe. And if the holes are found at a certain energy, it could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started, and no Big Bang.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... lider.html
By the way, your computer can help process data from the LHC.
http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/

We live in very interesting times! :clap:
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Btw,

Has this been settled yet?

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6133502
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Dunno, haven't seen that before.
The Higgs and techni-higgs have similar properties but belong to different theories of the universe, according to the statement. And while the Higgs is believed to be an elementary particle, the techni-higgs isn't. It's composed of two so-called techni-quarks, which are believed to be elementary particles.
I wonder what the other theory of the universe is? Check my first link above and go to the section titled "The Higgs Factory". This indicates the higher energy tests soon available could provide much more info on the Higgs, perhaps more than one type. Also since the Higgs decays into other particles, doesn't that mean it is not an elementary particle?
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I wonder what the other theory of the universe is?
Probably the Big Bounce universe. But that's just a guess.

Also since the Higgs decays into other particles, doesn't that mean it is not an elementary particle?
It means it is an elementary particle.
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Particle smashing has re-started! But still in check-out mode...
The Large Hadron Collider has smashed protons together for the first time since early 2013.

The low-energy collisions, part of preparations for the next round of experiments, began on Tuesday morning. Proton beams circled the LHC and collided at an energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) per beam. The aim for this second run of the LHC, following its planned two-year shutdown for repairs and improvements, is to stage collisions at 7,000 GeV per beam.

...Instead of getting physics results, Prof Shears and her team use this early data to fine-tune their experiments. "This time, we used the data to make sure subdetectors are time-aligned with each other," she told BBC News.

5/6/15
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32590036
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CERN's LHC resumes experiments at record-breaking energy
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resumed smashing particles together at unprecedented energy today (6/3/15), churning out data for the first time in more than two years that scientists hope might help crack the mystery of "dark matter."

The LHC, a 27 km (17 mile) underground complex near Geneva, will smash protons at 13 tera-electron-volts (TeV), almost twice the energy achieved in an initial three-year run that began in 2010. This proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle, a discovery that produced two Nobel prizes in 2013.

Nobody knows quite what the LHC might reveal with its new particle collisions — mini-versions of the Big Bang primordial blast that brought the universe into being 13.8 billion years ago — but scientists hope it will produce evidence of what has been dubbed "new physics."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cern- ... -1.3098247
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I'm wondering what data it is that's needed to crack the dark matter mystery.

And I still haven't read any updates about the higgs.
One day it was announced it had been discovered.
The next day there were doubts that it has been discovered.
Then nothing. As if the doubt had been settled. But how?


This article came after several articles that stated scientists confirmed that the higgs had definitely been discovered

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/1 ... 33502.html

The new research seems to piggyback on previous research suggesting that the Higgs boson is actually made up of smaller particles, UPI reported.

CERN's data simply isn't precise enough to prove the particle discovered was the Higgs boson, Frandsen said. And he's not the only physicist to acknowledge the ambiguity in the data.

"The data from the LHC experiments are certainly consistent with the Higgs expectations of how it is produced and how it decays, as well as the spin of this particle," Dr. Michael Tuts, a particle physicist at Columbia University in New York City and a leading researcher at CERN, told The Huffington Post in an email. "However, as the article points out, that may not be the only explanation of this new particle."
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Well I can't find any articles more recent than the one you posted that might resolve the issue. This could be another example of when physicists are only 99.999999999999991% sure of a result, they state the results have some ambiguity. :wink:

However another set of experiments has found the Higgs. Dunno if there's a difference between a "Higgs boson" and a "Higgs boson analogue", but this replication probably supports Cern finding the Higgs.
Following its discovery first in 2012 at Cern's Hadron Collider, an international research team of physicists from Israel, India, Germany and the US have now reported the first-ever sighting of the Higgs boson in superconducting materials. The results boost chances of observing the exotic 'god particle' in table top experiments at low costs.

"Just as the CERN experiments revealed the existence of the Higgs boson in a high-energy accelerator environment, we have now revealed a Higgs boson analogue in superconductors," says Prof Aviad Frydman, a member of Bar-Ilan University's Department of Physics, who directed the study together with Prof Martin Dressel, of Stuttgart University.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/god-particle-d ... rs-1488915
As to dark matter, it's possible the LHC will actually create it.
Dan Tovey, professor of particle physics at the University of Sheffield, UK, told BBC News that the LHC could end up "turning normal matter into dark matter. If that's the case, the LHC would be acting as a dark matter factory, which is quite a neat idea,"

http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/l ... cle/434959
OK so it has already been a few days now, has the CERN LHC found anything new at these high energies? I'm getting impatient already! :lol:
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It takes a while to interpret the data.
They may find exactly what theyre looking for because they expect to find it.

Get it?
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I hope they don't discover the higgs boson. I hope it's a mistake. We need a little leeway in science fiction world building, and when everything is known, nothing fun can be made up.
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