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SERIES OF LIGHTNING STRIKES SEEN OUTSIDE LABORATORY RESEARCHING GOD PARTICLE
July 28 2010
Paris, France – Some have and continue to argue that the beauty of the world could never have happened without a divine inspiration. Others have argued that the beauty of nature is all the more remarkable because it is the result of natural processes 
rather than created by the hand of a creator. While the vast majority of people believe the former, the only evidence we have ever uncovered suggests the latter. Whatever the truth, it is our quest to uncover the answers that makes us human and ultimately the best expression of whatever created us and our world.
Occasionally the normally divergent disciplines of religion and science come into alignment with one another, most recently in the ongoing search for the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle that in simple terms gives particle mass. The hypothetical particle, should it exist, would provide scientists
with the clearest evidence yet of the nature of the universe. Of course being the God particle, essentially the basis for all existence, the discovery help to undermine the traditional religious argument while at the same time transmuting it into another form. Many laboratories, including the LHC, are currently seeking the mysterious Higgs boson but in the case of one lab in Illinois, which recently announced that they may be close, a string of violent lightning strikes has caused many to second guess their research.
“Fermilab has pushed the productivity of the Tevatron collider to new heights. Thanks to the extraordinary performance of Fermilab's Tevatron collider, CDF and DZero collaborators from around the world are producing exciting results and are making immense progress on the search for the Higgs particle,” said Dennis Kovar, associate director. “We combined the results of two experiments to refine the search for the Higgs. As for any kind of problematic environmental issues I can confirm that a major lightning storm did knock out the power to the lab for a few minutes. Subsequent storms had no impact on our work.”
Weather officials confirmed that they area immediately surrounding the lab, in Batavia, endured major lightning storms for seven straight days despite the rest of the surrounding area remaining dry and calm. 
“The Higgs boson is a major discovery and will change significant things in the field but isn’t quite as flashy as the other God. There will be no major sea change in public attitude but it will push physics in an entirely new direction and confirm many things that have been theorized for many years,” said Scrape TV Science analyst Dr. Howard Poe. “Frankly I doubt that there will be much of change in religious fields. There have been profound and damning scientific discoveries in the last hundred years or so that have not fundamentally change the way people look at religion so the discovery of the particle will not change those attitudes and suddenly turn the world to a more scientific view of existence.”
Still not close to discovering the boson, the LHC in France and Switzerland has not been inundated with lightning.
“It’s odd to see things like lightning isolated in a small area like that but not totally unheard of. The old wives tale about lightning not striking twice is a total myth and shouldn’t be taken seriously at all. Lightning strikes wherever it strikes but because of its infrequency and the wide area it’s unlikely to hit twice in the same spot in the same storm, though it could happen,” continued Poe. “For it to happen for solid week is very strange but I wouldn’t read too much into it. Unless it starts to hit the building and cause power surges there likely won’t be a serious concern for anyone working in the lab, just strange.”
Reports of multiple piles of salt around the lab appear to either be false, or they were washed away in the rain.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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