boson

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They hope to create called a Higgs boson, which is a particle that hasn't existed since a split-second after the big bang and yet which, physicists hypothesise, was fundamental, billions of years ago, for the establishing the nature of reality.

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  1. noun Any of a class of particles, such as the photon, pion, or alpha particle, that have zero or integral spin and obey statistical rules permitting any number of identical particles to occupy the same quantum state.

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  • My most interesting prediction is the mass of the Higgs boson, at 220 plus or minus 20 billion electron-volts. —  Omni: October 1994
  • Incorrect, the higgs boson is also known as the god particle, it gives particles mass. theoretical particle physics has predicted almost the entire last 40 years of physics without fail Use convicts, its standard practice for them. —  WFMU's recent playlists
  • The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not yet been observed. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • The Higgs boson is said to be 7 feet tall with bright red hair, red nose, and giant shoes (hence the name "boson", after Bozo the Clown). —  doggdot.us
  • Only once the beams are circulating properly can scientists use them to hunt for the so-called "God particle" - the fabled Higgs boson which is believed to give matter its mass, but which has yet to be detected. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. After Satyendra Nath Bose.

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  1. apparently from Old French *boçon, diminutive of boce, a boss: see boss.
 

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