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Cecil Munsey, PhD Date: July 2012
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HEINEKEN and the God Particle






Researched, illuminated, and presented
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Cecil Munsey, PhD
Copyright 2012

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Sixty articles ago (January 2009) I produced a well-received piece entitled
World Bottle (WOBO) !A glass brick that holds beer". WOBO bottles were
made by Heniken; they are recyclable bottles that can be used as bricks to build
walls and the like (Fig. 1). During construction of the Collider, two of the glass-
brick-bottles were accidentally wedged into the beam pipes of the LHC an act of
accidental or deliberate sabotage? The culprit(s) were never found.

(Fig. 1. Heinekin's WOBO)

The article [CecilMunsey.com #1226] in part, dealt with the development of
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In order to fully appreciate this current
article [CecilMunsey.com #1287] it is suggested that you go to the website
and take the time to review the original article, which will provide the best
background for appreciating and understanding this current article.


BACKGROUND: In September 2008 the LHC (Large Hadron Collider
world!s largest atom smasher) was completed after three decades of planning and
building under the Swiss-French border where scientists have been firing two beams
of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring in the tunnel
located under the Swiss and French border near Geneva, Switzerland (Figs. 2; 3;
and 4). Scientists of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (called
CERN by the French) aim to create conditions a split second after the supposed big
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bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the
universe.

(Fig. 2. Large Hadron Collider)

(Fig. 3. LHC [photo V. Mezzanotti])
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(Fig. 4. Inside LHC)
The collider!s function is to allow for the capture, study, and photographing of
a new subatomic particle called Higgs boson, or God particle (Fig. 5), which will
help explain why all matter has mass.

(Fig. 5. GOD particle pictured by CERN via AP)
THE DISCOVERY: The Fourth of July 2012 was celebrated not only with the
usual fanfare parades, barbecues, and fireworks but also with the announcement
of the discovery of long-sought-after new sub-atomic particle dubbed the Higgs
boson or the God particle. The idea of the Higgs, or something like it, had been
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around since 1964 when it was first hypothesized by UK theoretical physicist Peter
Higgs (Fig. 6).

(Fig. 6. GOD particle pictured by CERN via AP)
In an interview with the BBC, the world!s most famous physicist, Stephen
Hawking (Fig. 7) said he had placed a wager with another scientist that the Higgs
boson would never be found. It seems I have just lost $100, he said upon
notification recently of the historic discovery.

(Fig. 7. Most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking)
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Political cartoonists far and wide acknowledged the recent discovery. Of the
half a dozen or so I!ve noted one of my favorite is the one that appeared in the
Ottawa Citizen newspaper (Fig. 8).




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