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Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson

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Re: Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson

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The Higgs wasn't the only predicted particle that evidence has been found for recently. It looks like the Fermi gamma-ray telescope found some decent evidence that cosmological dark matter is composed of neutralinos, which have a rest mass, oddly, about half that of the Higgs:

Evidence for gamma-ray halos around galaxy clusters: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1003

Evidence for a 130 GeV spike in gamma-ray emissions in certain locales: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1045

Re: Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson

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I do wonder if the higgs is a funny creature in that it has a sort of quantum echo. By that I mean that it is in more than one place at once, this would also help explain why gravity is as weak as it is. If that is the case then you could think of the higgs as being like a bouncy ball with the decay of the various bounces all actualy happening at once (may explain those fluctuations). Though if you were to observe a…

The Higgs boson is not thought to be related to gravity, beyond giving mass to some particles. The Higgs particle is the "chunky" form of the Higgs field, just like a photon of light is a little chunk of electric field that has broken off and gone into business for itself. If you have more questions about physics, ask /r/physics on Reddit. They people there are very nice and include several serious physicists.

Thank you very much Sir
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