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Will You Help Find the ‘God Particle’?

Last month we reported researchers using the large hadron accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to find the the Higgs boson particle, commonly referred to as the God particle, would know whether it exists by the end of 2012.

Now, CERN is asking you to help them reach their goal of finding this particle. Gizmodo has the details:

CERN is tapping into the BOINC distributed computing project (which crowdsources computing power to create supercomputer for processing vast amounts of data) to release LHC@Home 2.0.

Simply put, BOINIC is a program that lets users donate idle computer time to science projects. Other projects have included Rosetta@home and ClimatePrediction.net. The first project to run on the LHC@Home 2.0 is in it’s test phase. Scientists will compare LHC@Home results to experimental data reported from the world’s largest atom smasher.

In April, we reported scientists thought they had finally found the Higgs boson particle, but were not able to replicate the results for confirmation.

Are you going to download the program and see if you can help scientists find the “God Particle”?

Comments (47)

  • yiddishlion
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 5:54pm

    I have it right here with me.My apologies. I honestly did not know that anyone was looking for it. Was it missing or something?

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 7, 2012 at 4:44pm

      Isn’t the LHC a CONTROLLED experiment? Was the LHC created by chance over ions of time?

      Of course not.

      1) The supercollider took hundreds of man hours to build.
      2) It cost about 10 billion dollars to produce.
      3) It was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
      4) It requires hundreds of computers, and
      5) some 2,000 scientists to operate.

      And yet after all of this coordination, we’re expected to believe that the first event all happened by random chance?

      Talk about blind faith!

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  • uvgtafrnd2
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:44pm

    Nah! But how about finding that G-spot?

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  • islandlady
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:43pm

    Oh I think well all find the God particle pretty soon, through the viewing of his son Jeus Christ.

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  • Cocheta
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:46pm

    All particles are “God Particles.” He crafted the universe and applied physical qualities to even the smallest fraction of an atom. They are gifts, secret puzzles for us to unlock so that we might appreciate the genius of his creations.

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  • mcmxl22
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Only agnostics have to search fot the ‘god particle’. Atheists don’t believe it exists and the rest of us already found it.

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  • HD Veteran
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:07pm

    I heard Al Gore IS the god particle

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  • Beulah
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:40pm

    Yeah, well their funding ends right about then, so you can well imagine the panic to demonstrate SOME type of progress by that date, right?

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  • Sand
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:28pm

    They are attempting to do something which has never been done before. This project of atom smashing will be foraging along the very forefront of scientific research.. and I think they will find something they did not intend to. When the Hadron Collider hits the top speed, they are expecting that it will do something NO OTHER atom smasher has ever done before.. they will collide particles at speeds NEVER before seen. Very few people seem to understand that when you get to such “cutting edge” places in science, often bad things happen. Like the FIRST nuclear test, which ended in most of the people watching the test happen dying of nuclear fallout (they didn’t understand radiation). Fortunately, God has wonderful self-limiting mechanisms installed in His Creation so I don’t believe as some do that it will create a black hole and suck all of earth into it – just as the worries about a nuclear explosion setting the atmosphere on fire and killing all life on earth did not happen. However, certainly the dangers are underrated and dismissed.. as were those of the first nuclear experiment. Scientists today do not understand and have incomplete data about the other “universes” or “dimensions” as string theory calls them, and that can have catastrophic consequences… and THIS is the most likely place to find out about such dimensions, in reactions from collisions at speeds UNHEARD OF ever before.. think about it.

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    • Sand
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:45pm

      This article explains: “In April, we reported scientists thought they had finally found the Higgs boson particle, but were not able to replicate the results for confirmation.”

      As scientists who believe in a Designer, we understand that all the parts must be in place for a gun to fire or a car’s engine to start (or complex life to exist). There are tons of variables involved, but once you have the right mixture and mechanism, it works. Like a car turning over but not catching, perhaps their “unrepeatable” phenomenon was like the starter turning over but not yet igniting the engine. They seem to understand there is something there, but it eludes them.. The exact mixture and mechanism has not yet been found, but many think there is SOMETHING there. They think it is the “God Particle” but what if they are playing with things they have no idea about. Will extra dimensions continue to elude them as they play with the very building blocks of matter (which definitely touch more than one dimension)?

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    • justneedaname
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Yeah, and people used to be afraid of what would happen once man broke the 60 mile per hour (one mile per minute) barrier. Ooooh, I’m scared.

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    • Sand
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:13pm

      I, of course, hope you are right, JustNeedaName.
      It would be awful to be proven correct on this point.
      But can you guarantee a “black hole” or something else (extra dimensional) will NOT result when this has NEVER been attempted by human beings before? Ancient man has never had an atom smasher to do this experiment before.. Again, the dangers are underrated and dismissed.. and ridiculed in your case. But I suppose SCIENCE will be forwarded by discovery, just as nuclear science has advanced after the first test proved “successful” – regardless of the risk. You cannot stop a moving train or science from moving forward.. and I see no way to make safety measures which would protect from what consequences may result from this experiment, either.

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    • YardPimp
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:17pm

      Looks like someone’s been playing Half Life a bit too long.

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  • QuantumVerp
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:05pm

    Sure, like I’m gonna help some ego-maniacal scientists who never even have recognized, there are two universes right under their noses, the Wave Universe and the Particle Universe, running along in parallel?

    The whole drive for your endeavors seems to me to have morphed into an egotistical science vs. religion matrix. Your great team-effort attention to the matter of this Creation are one of the reasons this planet is possibly going to be reduced to an asteroid belt (at worst). We try to tell Him we don‘t think Earth’s scientists can harm the Universes but… in the end, He’s the expert, and you gotta admit, them H-bombs bite quite close to the core of at least the Particle Universe.

    Besides, planets of peoples who have achieved advanced civilization status do it more with thought experiments in Universe #2, the Wave Universe. Scientists on this planet are just worshipers of the Particulate Universe, #3.

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    • QuantumVerp
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:09pm

      Of couse the HG really isn’t about God (Universe #1). It’s just another broken out piece of the whole puzzle. Take your burnt out pieces and put them together and see if you can make a Universe. You can’t.

      You need to be more Amish-like.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Is conscioussnes part of the wave universe? We have brain waves and we find music appealing because sound is also wavy. Is spirit just a kind of wave particle?

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    • Youaresofakingdumb
      Posted on August 18, 2011 at 8:54am

      More like QuantumDERP, amiright?

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:22pm

    I’m not DL any programs…those things track you and do all kinds of strange stuff. You have no ideal what is in those supposed helpful DLs…

    Blaze did you DL it and check out the code first? They should pay to use my computer to help them.

    No thanks, I’d rather help the poor thru my Church.

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  • The Bulletproof Patriot
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:35am

    Sheldon Cooper will be very excited to hear this.

    http://www.thebulletproofpatriot.com

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  • christos
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:24am

    ……It does not exist that is why +GOD+ is +GOD+ and you are man the uncreated which is +GOD+ and what +HE+ created which is man,the universe and all of which it contains,your time would be better spent not trying to figure out +GOD+ and figure yourselves out,you are DUMB.

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  • domb12
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:11am

    This sounds like they are desperate, they cant find this particle with the most expensive piece of scientific equipment ever built (about 5 billion) so now they are asking for help from people who know nothing about science

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    • The Voice of Libertarian Reason
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:09am

      They‘re not asking for your help they’re asking for your computer’s help. They need more computing power, by downloading the LHC@Home program you give them access to your computer’s data processing power.

      Maybe they’re trying to keep that price tag under 6 billion.

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  • Wolf
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:46am

    There is no need to find a God particle… we know right where He is… in the heart of those who believe.

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  • OhioRifleman
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:15am

    @ Blazers

    There appears to be a misconception here. The Higgs Boson was not named ‘the God Particle’ by Higgs, nor the scientific community. Most Physicists do not refer to it as the God Particle, because they know better. The scientific community does not expect to prove or disprove God on this one, and most of them are just as religious as the posters here. Stop ripping on them for a media distortion they had / have no part in.

    The term God Particle was made famous by the publishers of a book written by a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the title of a book taken way the hell out of context, and in all reality has nothing to do with the actual science of the matter; or, just as appropriately, has precisely zero to do with God Himself. Shall we criticize the press pukes that started this whole God Particle nonsense, instead of shooting the researchers?

    IMHO, whether or not we find the Higgs Boson, God is still doing His thing in His way. Shall we leave it at that?

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    • Sam the Casual Movie Guy
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:21am

      “God Particle” is a misnomer; no physicist calls the HB particle that. Just like the Tea Party is not a real political party, but people think it is by the way the media portrays it.

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Thank you; I‘m glad to see at least one comment from a person who knows what they’re talking about. Any person in my classes would be laughed out of the room — or, at least, thought of very strangely by the rest of us — if they insisted on referring to the Higgs Boson as the “God Particle.” Not once did the subject of religion come up in any of my classes that we studied this particle in. It’s nothing to do with God, and everything to do with modern and quantum physics, and the nature of matter. I am so weary of trying to explain this to people who just assume that because some jerk happened to call this particle a “God Particle,” that all of us in the physics community are trying to play/disprove God! Nice to see someone who understands. Thanks for the comment :)

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  • NewMOe
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:01am

    Hmm how did that SETI thing work out for all those that downloaded it? Then you walk in with a number of supporters (installed apps) and demand funding. Here is a thought, sell the APP and use that money for research, oh sorry that would mean self funding and working to sell an idea (effort).
    Sounds more like a bunch of angry God hating lab nerds who want to spread their views on the backs of others hard work. Oh BTW to the AGHLN’s He is right here, just ask, need help ?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:08am

      The God particle is FAITH and I‘m sorry but it’s totally out of reach to those who believe in nothing.

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    • Physicist_In_Training
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:25pm

      I am definitely not a God-hating lab nerd. I’d call myself more of a God-indifferent lab nerd. Nobody in the physics community calls this the “God Particle;” we call it by its proper name, the Higgs-Boson. The name “God Particle” was coined because of a book called “The God Effect,” which is about the Higgs-Boson. It is called such because this particle has some really interesting properties that seem to defy the laws of physics as we previously knew them, and the writer wanted a sensational title. It’s got nothing to do with proving or disproving God, any more than Newton’s Laws of Motion do. It just has to do with understanding the universe we live in. Please, get it right.

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  • PelositheGreat
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:44am

    God Particle…. sounds like it reduces God to nothing more than some scientific term that is without intelligence.

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    • MMSands
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:12am

      Uhhh… I‘m pretty sure that’s the idea.

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:09am

    Do what you like BUT keep your hands out of MY pocket if you’re looking for funding.

    (God Almightly must be laughing his cosmic rear-end off watching these lost souls.)

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  • louise
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:12am

    hmmm
    help ‘find’ the God particle.
    Was God ever lost?

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:00am

    The search for the infinite particle will require infinite resources. You liberal, god-hating egg head have backed yourselves into a corner of the infinite.

    It is probably more like that a boson will fly out of your ass than that you‘ll deduce it using a million or a billion PC’s.

    Take the blame- You were wrong. Stop the circus. You are wasting your time. Possibly a better and parallel pursuit for you today would be changing lead to gold. Arte you all just bored? stumped? under funded? go away.

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  • Witness1974
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:49am

    Interesting euphemism, “God Particle.“ The purpose is no doubt to contribute ”evidence” for the argument against the existence of God. It is one more piece of physical stuff that they think they can use to convince everyone that there is no need for a Creator. One more attempt at putting God in his place, that is “god” in his place. If they can make him subservient to his own creation and contain him within it, then they can explain him away with the “laws of nature.“ ”The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’”

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:25am

    I could help if you’d listen. I have already found the Whole Thing, not just the particle.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:33am

      Me too. They wouldn’t know God if He bit them in the ass…

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  • bumpbs
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:16am

    This is all we need to bog down internet and our home computers… Why can’t people use the internet and our computers for what they were designed for… sharing porn and bashing people anonymously on blogs.

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  • Reverend_Child
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:19am

    They coulda just asked me. I found that god particle beside the road one night, just layin‘ there all a’glowey.
    I keep it hooked up to a generator in the shed now. Free electricity for life! Woot!
    And free whuskey. Didn’t foresee that little development, but who am I to question provident particles?

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    • brickmoon
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:58am

      Best comment of the day. How’s everything in the blasted heath?

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:02am

      I found one, too, but pitched it after picking it out of my nose.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:33am

    NO

    do it on your own time with your own money losers

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    • mdavid
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:52am

      Why so cranky?

      Instead of donating any money for those that are cash strapped, and instead of being harassed for money, people can donate their computer’s downtime to take huge workloads off this enormous project. What higher calling is there than to contribute to historic developments in science that could help us understand the intricate workings of the universe?

      Thanks Blaze. I think I‘ll donate my computers processor to this project while I’m AFK.

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