New particle potentially discovered; bigger than the "god particle" in importance

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The large hadron collider at CERN has probably discovered a new particle that was not predicted by standard physics. More tests will be happening this month to nail down what exactly the particle is. Whatever it ends up being, it'll be significantly expanding our understanding of the field.

The standard model of particles was figured out in the 60s and has predicted every particle discover over the past 50 years. The higgs boson was the last remaining undiscovered particle from the standard model and was discovered in 2012. This new particle will most likely be the first time the standard model fails, and that's huge. Unless we get really unlucky and it's just something mundane, the particle should help confirm which theoretical physics are correct.

This video talks about it for the first half.

[the-pi-guy]

Super exciting stuff!!!!

[Xevross]

!!! Omg this is so exciting!

I was really hoping this would happen

[BananaKing]

man... even new particles are getting leaked before E3

[BasilZero]

So...has a alternate universe been found yet ;(!?

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New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears - BBC News

[darkknightkryta]

So...has a alternate universe been found yet ;(!?

Yes. It's riiiiiight here *points in the air*