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Scientists catch glimpse of "God particle"
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T.K. RandallJuly 24, 2011 ·
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The Large Hadron Collider has picked up fluctuations that could be from the elusive Higgs Boson particle.
Scientists have however been quick to stress that while this development is encouraging, it doesn't mean that they have definitively discovered the particle. The hunt for the Higgs Boson is aimed at determining where particles get their mass for without it there would have to some other unknown mechanism at work.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up tantalising fluctuations which might - or might not - be hints of the sought-after Higgs boson particle. But scientists stress caution over these "excess events", because similar wrinkles have been detected before only to disappear after further analysis.
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