Hi Murphy
Hugely exciting times isn't it! I have been watching the live Cern webcast and keeping up with the news since 6pm and phew haven't stopped and have been celebrating with glasses of wine *hick* must stop now
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The news is only just starting to trickle through in the last hour or so.
It's been such a rush to witness this historical news and watching the media releases come through!
I have to say, I couldn't understand a lot of what they were talking about in the webcast announcement with all their graphs etc, but hey, my eyes were glued to the screen and I was so excited, even if I didn't full understand how they got to where they got to, to find it, I knew it was important stuff and I was going to soak in every single bit of it!!!
The theory of everything... here we come!
This is from Brian Greene on my facebook wall...
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Hi Everyone,
Here's the situation just announced at CERN:
Each of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle with properties that are consistent with it being the long-sought Higgs particle. It will require more data and work to definitively establish that the particle is indeed the Higgs, but there's now no doubt that a new particle has been found.
When this result was announced at CERN, the auditorium erupted into prolonged applause, fitting for this historic discovery. No doubt, physicists worldwide erupted into similar applause. Decades of work by thousands of scientists around the globe have resulted in this spectacular achievement.
--BG
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