From "Corriere della sera" 21/12/2010
The Higgs. Carneades, who was he? The mass of people do not know and rightly so. But the newspapers, they, yes, they know and according to their informative news and this same truth from time to time, in correspondence with the experiments at CERN and write sensational headlines, like "the hunt for the Higgs, or the God particle ". God particle not in the sense of a possessive genitive, as created by God, but in the subjective sense, as it is the particle that creates God, that is to say that 'the origin of matter, with the implication sorridevole, alluring and sensational which means "read with care, be careful, soon we will share the extraordinary news that God does not exist, because all 'source c' is the Higgs particle that gives matter at all."
Higgs explained that the term comes from the name of the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose who has studied elementary particles, which are divided into bosons and fermions. The physical Higgs in 1964, while strolling on the Scottish hills said to have had a great idea (one big idea ), suggested the 'existence of a new elementary particle, that at all today', has not yet been detected in experiments particle acceleration, but that is sought with great dedication by the huge superacceleratore LHC in Geneva. Recent experiments (October 2010) have begun to give important results are on track, but not decisive in determining the existence of irrefutable Higgs. The large machine was switched off December 6, 2010 for a two-month maintenance and upgrade of technology used. The energy level reached by which we tried the Higgs boson was 7 Tev (a Tev is equivalent to one million electron volts). When will rekindle enough, perhaps, bring it to 7.1 Tev to get many other great results. But if they are not, the car can climb to power Maximum of 14 TeV. In all this, the 600 Italian physicists, the world's most important in the field of high energies, have a significance both in record-breaking 'invention of technologies in both the design and direction. At the head of the four experiments, involving about 6000 scientists from around the world, are all Italian physicists. Their purpose is to reproduce the conditions of 'universe a split second after the big bang from which everything originates. This is beautiful, great and positive perspective. But beauty is not what made the 'editor of a text on the physical Higgs Leon Max Lederman. This Nobel Prize winner spoke of "goddamn particle" for his elusive character, the elusive search tools. All 'publisher did not like the name, which changed to the "God particle", thus giving the' start to the sensationalism of the newspapers. Higgs was concerned that this might offend religious people and was disappointed. For newspapers and instead is left with enthusiasm "the God particle." But is the purpose of the CERN scientists have finally confirmed the Higgs boson certainly do not offend religious people. They know and just with the scientific findings which science operates and can operate only in 'immanent, and that no scientific discovery as Galileo thought the believer can never undermine the transcendent. There are different orders and any negative inference, each application of finite categories to 'infinite transcendence is not possible. Higgs can sleep soundly without fear of offending someone.
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