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The announcement, planned for 8 a.m. EST (2 p.m. CET), will address the status of the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle, sometimes called the "God Particle" because of its importance to science.

The $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest scientific machine. Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the atom smasher is intended to enact the conditions of the "Big Bang" -- to unlock the secrets of the universe.

This particle, which has long been theorized but never detected, is thought to give all other particles mass. Scientists at the LHC have been hoping that when protons inside the machine collide together at extremely high speeds, the energetic explosions that result will create the Higgs.

Researchers on two of the LHC's experiments, called ATLAS and CMS, will present the status of their search for the Higgs at a public seminar tomorrow.

"These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs," CERN scientists said in a statement.

At that time, while the atom smasher was churning out lots of data from colliding particles, researchers had yet to see any conclusive evidence of the Higgs.

If scientists have found an indication of the Higgs, it could have far-reaching consequences in physics. It is the only particle predicted by the reigning theory of particle physics that has not yet been observed experimentally. Its discovery would help validate this theory, called the Standard Model, and fill in some of the remaining gaps in physicists' understanding of the smallest pieces of the universe.

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"These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs," CERN scientists said in a statement.

At that time, while the atom smasher was churning out lots of data from colliding particles, researchers had yet to see any conclusive evidence of the Higgs.

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So they don't actually see it, they just see a whole bunch of evidence around it that points to the existence of it.

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The $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest scientific machine. Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the atom smasher is intended to enact the conditions of the "Big Bang" -- to unlock the secrets of the universe.

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Scientists at the LHC have been hoping that when protons inside the machine collide together at extremely high speeds, the energetic explosions that result will create the Higgs.

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So they don't actually see it, they just see a whole bunch of evidence around it that points to the existence of it.

Talk about faith!

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You do know we can't possibly see atoms right (maybe in the future but not now). Atoms are just theoretical,

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You do know we can't possibly see atoms right (maybe in the future but not now).

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I thought with all of their stuff they announced a few weeks about certain particles moving faster than the speed of light

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debunked

And I am skeptical of the standard model, but I am still interested to see what they find.

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Has the 'God Particle' Been Found? Major Announcement Expected Tuesday

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So they don't actually see it, they just see a whole bunch of evidence around it that points to the existence of it.

Talk about faith!

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So they don't actually see it, they just see a whole bunch of evidence around it that points to the existence of it.

Talk about faith!

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the simple fact that we finite dependent beings exist, is enough to show that some type of God exists. Well atleast some being that can't fail to exist and is the reason for everything else's existence.

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Do you not think that we should convict someone of murder unless we know of someone who, without any doubt, saw the murder take place? Or should we do things like rely on "evidence around it that points to" the murder actually taking place?

That's how science works. I'm sorry you don't understand that.

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