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Thread #59418 Message #1540770
Posted By: Amos
11-Aug-05 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
That should be "wish", not which. But never mind, because unless you subscribe to New Scientist, which I don't, all you get is the following tidbit:
"The theory was previously used to explain inertial mass - the property of matter that resists acceleration - but it has been extended to gravitational mass, which is the property of matter that feels the tug of gravity.
For decades, mainstream opinion has held that something called the Higgs field gives matter its mass, mediated by a particle called the Higgs boson. But no one has yet seen the Higgs boson, despite considerable time and money spent looking for it in particle accelerators."
Ahmmmmm.... the nature of this special vacuum condition is most inneresting.
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