user: IN: Scientists to unveil evidence of 'God particle'
GENEVA – Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.

But after decades of work and billions of dollars spent, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, say they aren't quite ready to say they've "discovered" the particle.

Instead, experts familiar with the research at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border say that the massive data they have obtained will essentially show the footprint of the key particle known as the Higgs boson -- all but proving it exists -- but doesn't allow them to say it has actually been glimpsed.

It appears to be a fine distinction. Senior CERN scientists say that the two independent teams of physicists who plan to present their work at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border on July 4 are about as close as you can get to a discovery without actually calling it one.

"I agree that any reasonable outside observer would say, `It looks like a discovery,"' British theoretical physicist John Ellis, a professor at King's College London who has worked at CERN since the 1970s, told The Associated Press. "We've discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs."

CERN's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

For particle physicists, finding the Higgs boson is a key to confirming the standard model of physics that explains what gives mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed.

Rob Roser, who leads the search for the Higgs boson at the Fermilab in Chicago, says "particle physicists have a very high standard for what it takes to be a discovery" and thinks it is a hair's breadth away.

Rosen compared the results scientists are preparing to announce Wednesday to finding the fossilized imprint of a dinosaur: "You see the footprints and the shadow of the object, but you don't actually see it."
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OUT: Scientists say the world's biggest atom smasher plans to announce Wednesday enough evidence has been gathered to show that the long-sought God particle answering fundamental questions about the universe does indeed exist.


IN: Stossel: How the government should handle natural disasters
This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," November 1, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

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O'REILLY: "Stossel Matters Segment" tonight, it is estimated the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy will be between -- ready -- $30 billion and $50 billion. And much of that will be picked up by the taxpayer? Our pal John Stossel says that is not good. He joins us now.

So about 20 years ago, you know a little beach house, the lavish beach house on West Hampton Beach out on Long Island and it got swept away by a hurricane, right? Right? Gone. Totally gone.

JOHN STOSSEL, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Totally gone.

O'REILLY: I think we have pictures of that. Do we have pictures of that we can put up there.

So Stossel's house just floats out to the sea, 20 years later that same area got hit hard and you say, what?

STOSSEL: I say the government should stop insuring areas like that and people like me who are stupid enough to build on the edges of oceans.

O'REILLY: So you say -- that's not Stossel's house. I thought we had picture but I made a mistake. You say that if you buy a waterfront property that nobody -- what if nobody wants to insurance you. I mean what is that?

STOSSEL: Then you take your own risk. And the private insurance market is saying they're not in a risky place. So don't build there.

O'REILLY: All right. So you say nobody can live near the water then?

STOSSEL: No, anybody can live near the water.

O'REILLY: But you can't get insurance.

STOSSEL: Well, then take a risk with your own money. But don't ask the taxpayer to cover you.

O'REILLY: How much did the taxpayer cover you when your house got swept away?

STOSSEL: It was about $250,000. And at the time that covered the whole cost of the house.

O'REILLY: So FEMA, was it FEMA money that you got?

STOSSE: It was FEMA money. I -- I said to my father --

O'REILLY: All right, did you cash your check?

O'REILLY: Do you feel bad about that?

STOSSEL: Yes, I do. I won't do it again.

O'REILLY: Should you give -- should you give $250,000 back to the -- to the government?

STOSSEL: I give more than that to charity. I'm not going to give it to the government it will waste it.

O'REILLY: So that's true. And that's my beef, too.

So, you say that if you're in any kind of -- like Malibu, California, maybe you are up on the hill but that's a fire zone. So, if you are in any kind of zone that may be risky, the government should say hey, you're on your own and if you can find an insurer who is going to do it for exorbitant price that's all right but if you can't that's tough.

STOSSEL: Exactly. And the private insurers are experts in figuring out what's a good risk. That's information that the government obliterates by saying oh we don't want anyone to lose. So we'll cover you.

O'REILLY: Yes but they cover you with a high rate. I mean, they are not giving you a bonus on this. If you have to buy insurance if you have a beachfront property you're paying it.

STOSSEL: Well from the government?

O'REILLY: Yes, you are not paying a lot of money.

STOSSEL: Well but they are not paying the real cost. Because otherwise, the flood insurance plan wouldn't be billions in the red.

O'REILLY: But you are paying more than you would to a private company if you have to buy FEMA insurance, the government insurance. I had to do it a couple of times and I know.

So now you have a lot of rebuilding. President Obama is out there with Chris Christie and they are best friends now. And they are sharing ice cream cones. And -- and -- but the government has an obligation, I think to rebuild New Orleans and Katrina and to rebuild New Jersey, do they not?

STOSSEL: They do not. They have an obligation to get out of the way so you can rebuild if you want and provide roads and infrastructure.

O'REILLY: Who is going to do that though?

STOSSEL: Free people who choose to do that.

O'REILLY: So a storm or an earthquake or a tornado rips apart a town and you say the government shouldn't help out at all?

STOSSEL: The government should keep the peace, make sure there is no looting.

O'REILLY: But no rebuilding money at all?
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