Large Hadron Collider Finds "God Particles"?

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons (one of several types of hadrons) with very high kinetic energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that the collider will confirm the existence of the Higgs boson. This would supply a crucial missing link in the Standard Model and explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.

The Higgs boson is frequently referred to as 'the god particle', a name adopted after Leon Lederman's book which enjoyed wide popularity. In fact this is a code name for the familiar expression 'the goddamn particle' which working physicists frequently used in desperation.

Will the big experiment find the god particle before Dec 2008?

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	ZiiValue (chance)	Answer	MyValue (0% to 100% chance)	Possible Outcomes
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	90%			No

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