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1. I wonder if this finding will mean that masses are questionable on other particles too, that the
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 05:11 PM
Apr 2022

entire array of particles and their masses in explaining the workings of 'everything' is up in the air still? Of course, a lot of good work has been done in this whole field, but this finding goes to show that we still have a way to go. And we (I think) finally detected the long sought-after Higgs Boson after so long a search. All of this stuff is neat. Hopefully, unlike the Atom Bomb and other similar projects, these discoveries won't lead to new mass weapons of destruction but instead, to new sources of renewable and endless power/energy supplies for our constantly growing civilization. The cheaper the power is, the more that becomes available for use for new technologies, etc. The possibilities are endless.

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