{"id":28500,"date":"2012-07-10T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/we-could-have-been-number-one-we-could-have-been-number-one.html"},"modified":"2012-07-10T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:17:04","slug":"we-could-have-been-number-one-we-could-have-been-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/we-could-have-been-number-one-we-could-have-been-number-one.html","title":{"rendered":"We could have been Number One! We could have been Number One!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re the Higgs-Boson particle (emphasis mine) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;The data comes courtesy of Tevatron, a smaller accelerator 4 miles in circumference. \u00a0Located on the FermiLab grounds just east of Batavia, Ill., Tevatron was long the world&#39;s most powerful accelerator. \u00a0Its tests actually wrapped up last year, <b>before the accelerator was permanently shut down, after the U.S. decided being a world leader in scientific research was no longer among its spending priorities.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But Tevatron&#39;s last hurrah has offered a tantalize tease of what lies ahead with the LHC. \u00a0Taking 10 years worth of data involving approximately 500 trillion particle collisions, the FermiLab teams offered up signs of elusive particle.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If only Goldman-Sachs bonuses had been linked to Tevatron discoveries &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.dailytech.com%2Fnimage%2FTevatron.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/American+Accelerators+Last+Hurrah+998+Certainty+God+Particle+is+Found\/article25099.htm'>DailyTech &#8211; American Accelerator&#39;s Last Hurrah: 99.8% Certainty God Particle is Found<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTevatron presents strong evidence Higgs boson was observed, but LHC needed to provide final verification\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/V3Uv8JiQEsj' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re the Higgs-Boson particle (emphasis mine) &#8230; &quot;The data comes courtesy of Tevatron, a smaller accelerator 4 miles in circumference. \u00a0Located on the FermiLab grounds just east of Batavia, Ill., Tevatron was long the world&#39;s most powerful accelerator. \u00a0Its tests actually wrapped up last year, before the accelerator was permanently shut down, after the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/we-could-have-been-number-one-we-could-have-been-number-one.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We could have been Number One! 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