Finding the Higgs Particle, Decoding Light and Confounding Science

2012 is the year of discovery and change which will revolutionise the way we see our world and will prove the limitations of scientific theory, hinting at the wonders of the infinite and the unknown.

The matter in our Universe, when it was young, was distributed and shaped by pressure waves, but not dark matter which was unaffected by these waves: by decoding the first ripples in the light, and the dark, of the Universe using sophisticated scientific measurements, researchers say we will be able to know what stars and galaxies and other objects were present when the Universe was just forming itself billions of years ago. What an amazing thought.

The science of cosmology is like so much of modern science based on fact, proven theory and possibilities, and matter. It allows for the unknown but wishes the unknown to become evidence, and except in the rare enlightened science visionary the aspect of Spirit is ignored or seldom mentioned for fear of ridicule. Now that the veil of separation which filtered the presence of Spirit from our planet has dissolved, at the Equinox, this will change. Cosmologists, if they are willing, will see the heavenly objects which, occupying higher dimensions, have been hidden from our third dimensional eyes for so long, and they will be shocked as they see the presence of Spirit.

As, in these latest developments, the Light is decoded through the capture of specific "redshift" radio wavelengths, much more will be discovered about our Universe than can be imagined with our limited minds. Remember, though, that you do not need costly telescopes or scientific discovery to see or know what else is in our cosmos: it is clear and visible now - if you care to look, and to believe.

Confirming the Higgs particle will overturn accepted views and allow the unthinkable to be considered.

And it may be about to happen. Scientists in the US have found strong indications to prove the boson exists, and rumour says that researchers at the Hadron Collider are about to make an important announcement about a particle, either the Higgs model or a new version which would perplex scientists even further.

It is quietly accepted that the discovery of the Standard model boson will open the door to further questions and discoveries about, for example, dark matter and dark energy, and the existence of extra dimensions: indeed, some physicists fear this entry into arenas and phenomena far beyond the current understanding of science as we know it, because its inaccuracy and limitation will be revealed and the world of science will be thrown into disarray.

Higgs is much more than just an explanation of the working of the Universe and of mass. When proven, it will hint at amazing truths to do with our planetary and universal past and future and our place in a cosmos the nature and complexity of which is so awe-inspiring it will be almost beyond the understanding of the mind of Man, however eminent a scientist he or she may be. It is time for the truth of our rich environment to be known, for it will take many to the truth of the existence, and importance, of Spirit. This is what 2012 is all about.

Claire Montanaro is a skilled and sought after spiritual teacher, speaker, lecturer and author, with a reputation for inspiring and empowering her clients, students and audience. Based in Wales, her heartfelt desire is to assist people to actualise their total connectedness to all that is. Additionally, she offers a global philosophy for living and being in the new age for all seekers of truth. Seven simple yet intensely profound Principles form the core of her teaching, the practice of which embodies the New Consciousness and is a catalyst for One-ness.




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Laboratory Centrifuges

A number of laboratories make use of certain instruments and methods to prepare samples of various densities. Laboratory centrifuges are widely used by laboratories for this purpose. This laboratory equipment spins at high speeds so as to separate the required sample from the rest of the solution or mixture. The samples and it's component can then be used for various purposes.


Some hospitals use centrifuges to separate sperm cells from the semen so that these can be used to impregnate a woman who wants to be a mother but cannot do so via intercourse due to an infertile male partner. Many couples resort to centrifuges so that they can select the gender of the child prior to fertilization- sperm with the X chromosome is believed to be heavier than sperm with the Y chromosome and so, the heavier sperm (the X chromosome sperm) is flung to the bottom of the centrifuge which can be used in case the couple wants the child to be a girl. This can also be used to prevent sex-linked diseases.

Laboratory centrifuges are also used to separate blood into its components - plasma consisting of platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells. The red blood cells are the heaviest of the three and so, these are flung to the bottom of the centrifuge. These can be used by a hospital to help patients suffering from anemia via transfusion. White blood cells separated from whole blood are used to help patients suffering from leukemia (cancer of the blood) as they do not have many white blood cells and so, their immune systems are weak. Platelet-rich plasma is separated from whole blood for patients suffering from cancer because chemotherapy destroys the bone marrow and so, platelet-rich plasma would be required to prevent or stop them from bleeding. This is given to them via platelet transfusion.

Centrifuges can be used in laboratories involved in nuclear weaponry-the uranium isotope, uranium-238, is heavier than uranium hexafluoride gas and so these are more concentrated along the walls of the centrifuge, allowing one to extract the required isotope (uranium-235) and use this for the enrichment of nuclear weapons. These centrifuges can be used to separate petroleum from its components which would allow them to use the components for other purposes.

Different kinds of centrifuges are available for various purposes. Smaller centrifuges (known as micro centrifuges or microfuges) can be used in laboratories where the space is limited though they are now used in all laboratories. They have small plastic tubes that can hold small amounts of samples. Refrigerated models are available for samples that may be affected by warm temperatures or a change in temperature. They are equipped with condensers and compressors which helps keep them internally cool and allow substances to be centrifuged at low temperatures. All models are equipped with motors that would allow them to separate the solid in the fluid by flinging these to the bottom of the centrifuge.

Laboratory centrifuges are very useful for a number of purposes. They are used to help a country strengthen their nuclear weaponry. These can be used to separate petrol from its components which would benefit many other industries. Hospitals can use various components of blood according to the patients' requirements or to help impregnate a woman with a healthy child, free of potential sex-related diseases. Since they are available in different sizes they can be used by laboratories in a convenient manner which would allow them to protect, preserve, separate and analyze the mixture. Therefore, centrifuges help a number of industries and people in various, beneficial and useful ways.




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Laboratory Incubators

To look into the science of what makes a laboratory incubator, we first need to highlight what and how an incubator works. A typical incubator incorporates of a see through valve or a chamber in which has inbuilt equipment that allows room to control the temperature, humidity and ventilation. With the passage of time the use of incubators from the fundamentals such as keeping premature or sick newly born to hatching of poultry eggs has also moved to development of microorganisms. In other words, incubators allow room for easy manipulation and growing of these elements so that enough research can be done on new diseases or medical treatments and results are found to be worked upon.


If we shine light in laboratory incubators so we come to know that there are further many types of these laboratory incubators such as medical or specific substance related incubators. Laboratory incubators first came into notice by the doctors in the twentieth century, where they found out that these devices could also be used for looked upon more clearly on the bacteria inside a patient's body fluid, hence it will be of great assistance in identifying the root cause of their illness and then generating medicine to fight the bacteria will also be more effective.

A normal laboratory incubator has an area inside built in such a way that a Petri dish, a flask or a container can be put inside it to run the experiments. The collected fluid of microorganism is placed on one of these items mentioned before and then it is locked inside the incubator. After this process has been done, the air inside the incubator is heated up so that the cell's have a natural environment to grow in. Also there is allowance to release carbon dioxide or nitrogen in the incubator so that the cell's multiple in a large form, which will automatically be of great help to the scientist or the doctors for working upon the organism/bacteria they think is dangerous.

An example of the wide use of laboratory incubators is also the generation of tissue for better understanding of the living organism. It would be wise to mention here that with methods like this being adopted by the scientists, it has resulted in providing them vaccines to fight against Polio, measles, mumps and influenza etcetera. The issue of disorder in a human being has also been looked upon with the help of incubators in such a way that the disorders occur due to deficiency of particular sort of enzymes in area of the body, hence with tissue culture allowing doctors to look into all sorts of enzymes and bacteria, no matter how minute they are; the cause of any sort of disorder is calculated easily.

Genetically modified substances to procreate other sorts of organism, is also one of the many modern functions for which the laboratory incubator is being used by researchers worldwide. The development of insulin to provide sufficient proteins to people with diseases such as diabetes is also been able to come to the surface because researchers were able to manipulate different microorganism in order to come up with a substance such as insulin.

Laboratory incubators come in different shape in sizes; they can be as large as refrigerator or a small box. But each has its own particular use. With the advances in science and technology, there will be more development in regards to incubators so that better and concrete medical substances are made to fight various diseases. All these advancements are anticipated to take laboratory incubators to a whole new level of reliability and success.




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The UnGodly Particle Found

There were more fireworks than usual on the fourth of July when physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN announced that, in all likelihood, they had found the illusive Higgs boson, which is the holy grail of particle physics because it was predicted by what is called the Standard Model, which explains the makeup of all particles in the universe, and by finding it they were able to verify the theory.

Nicknamed the "God particle", the Higgs boson is important because it gives all matter - protons, neutrons, and electrons - their mass. While it is not possible to say where this discovery may lead, it brings humanity a step closer to understanding the universe and may even open up the way to explore parallel universes, which is another theory, still unproven, that excites physicists and laypeople alike.

While the scientists involved were excited, and the conference at which the announcement was made saw the rare case of physicists in the audience rising as one to provide a standing ovation, the official spokesman was cautious, as is the habit of scientists. "We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe."

What to expect next? Particle physics is about probability, and over the next few months physicists will comb through millions of collisions to firm up the mass and other properties of the Higgs boson. Only once this tedious work is completed that physicists will be able to apply their new knowledge to other questions. Does he Standard Model of subatomic particles need to be modified? What new insights might this discovery shed on the mysterious components that make up much of the non-visible universe -- such as dark matter and energy?

This discovery did not come cheap. It was made by the recently commissioned CERN's particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, which consists of two detectors, housed within 17 miles of underground tunnels buried below the Alps on the French-Swiss border. By crashing high-energy protons together they have been able to create conditions that were similar to those existing when the Big Bang, over 13 billion years ago. At a cost of $10 billion, it is the single most expensive piece of laboratory equipment in the history of mankind.

This project is a triumph for pure science. This discovery has no immediate application, cost billions to produce and is likely to excite little more than a headline for a day or two before it is forgotten by the general public. But, for scientists it opens up a whole new world of possibilities that will keep them busy for decades..

Let's give credit to the scientists who have sold this project to politicians, who would have seen precious few votes into funding an exploration into the inner workings of the universe.

Full marks to the PR genius who dubbed the Higgs boson "God particle". After all, spending a measly $10 billion to glimpse god has got to be cheap at the price. As it turns out, there was no PR genius behind the term "God particle", and its origins are much more mundane. It comes from the title of a book by Nobel physicist Leon Lederman whose draft title was "The Goddamn Particle," to describe the frustrations of trying to nail the Higgs. The title was cut back to "The God Particle" by his publisher, who did not want to include a swear word in the title.

Behind this big story is a sidebar, which has allowed the media to humanize the story. In the 1960s, Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who predicted the existence of the new particle, and thankfully he is alive today to witness the discovery of the subatomic particle that bears his name. But there is another name (in lower case) associated with this discovery. It is Satyeendra Nath Bose, and Indian physicist who provided the foundations of quantum statistics, which Higgs used for his theory. The family of particles called bosons are named after him, of which the Higgs is only one.

While Higgs is now in the running for a Nobel Prize, the man whose shoulders he stood on was never considered for such an honor, despite his not inconsiderable contributions to physics. Perhaps in this moment of scientific euphoria, the forgotten scientist of this discovery should be given equal billing.




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