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"  1 GROUCHO MARX Physicists worry about what they call the Groucho Marx effect\u2014that any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind capable of understanding it. The discovery of the Higgs boson right where physicists were looking for it is a great sign that the universe isn&amp;#039;t too complicated for us to understand after all. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a new clue to the big bang,&amp;quot; says Neil Turok, director of Canada&amp;#039;s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. &amp;quot;It gives us hope that we can really describe what was going on at that time.&amp;quot;  2 IMPERFECT PREDICTIONS What&amp;#039;s most exciting for young physicists isn&amp;#039;t what the predictions got right\u2014it&amp;#039;s what they got wrong. Early indications suggest that the Higgs boson isn&amp;#039;t behaving quite as predicted when it decays into other particles at the end of its ultrashort lifetime. So far, it&amp;#039;s decaying into photons more often than expected and into other particles less often. One possible explanation: The Higgs itself is a composite particle made of smaller particles, a prospect that could help to explain the mysterious dark matter that permeates the universe. 3 TECHNOLOGIES TBD Even Peter Higgs, the 83-year-old physicist who helped predict the new particle in the 1960s, was stumped when asked about the new discovery&amp;#039;s practical applications. &amp;quot;I have no idea,&amp;quot; he admitted. That doesn&amp;#039;t mean there won&amp;#039;t be any, Brookhaven physicist Howard Gordon says: &amp;quot;When Einstein proposed relativity, no one thought of its application to GPS.&amp;quot; Higgs&amp;#039;s discovery sheds light on the energy stored in the fabric of space\u2014and gives us a chance to harness it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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