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Physics humor: 'In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson'

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April 13, 2009 10:13 pm
By Sheila Lennon

In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson by Michael Rottman at The Morning News.

If you've ever wondered what would have happened if you'd said no that night, you understand.


9. If all else fails, the only foolproof way to remove the Higgs boson from your innards is to disprove its existence.

Atlasevent.jpgThe Higgs Boson particle is what the Large Hadron Collider is looking for -- the "God particle".

I would show you a picture, but the best we have is two hadrons colliding, at right, from CERN in Switzerland where the Atlas experiment collides hadrons to simulate Higgs boson.

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