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Update on the search for the Higgs boson at CERN
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Not to Palestine.
For the record, I'm serious. Various models of particle physics hinge on whether the Higgs exists or not, or what its like. Its an important test for what is known as The Standard Model.
Other theories are thought of as more desirable, as they explain things the SM cannot. Either way, its important.
Well I think we still don't know much of what kind of particles there are out there. Even if Higgs Boson is comfirmed and the standard model has to be rewritten, it will happen again when new stuff gets discovered. Or am I wrong?
We still don't know what dark matter or dark energy are, and they account for 97% off the total mass-energy of the universe.
So yes, the models have to change, but this is another box to check, so to speak.
You're not wrong.
Nice.
phisheep
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Careful there, you might upset the CMS team - it's only Atlas that used comic sans.
Big old cultural difference between the two: CMS is a pushy/corporate style - wear suits, bang out way too many papers, bit of a reputation for publishing before they are quite ready, have preprepared slide templates and a sober sensible font. Atlas is more cautious, slower to publish, more fun and uses comic sans or whaterever else is to hand.
If they were console manufacters, CMS would be Microsoft and Atlas would be Nintendo.
Big old cultural difference between the two: CMS is a pushy/corporate style - wear suits, bang out way too many papers, bit of a reputation for publishing before they are quite ready, have preprepared slide templates and a sober sensible font. Atlas is more cautious, slower to publish, more fun and uses comic sans or whaterever else is to hand.
If they were console manufacters, CMS would be Microsoft and Atlas would be Nintendo.
Nintendo is fun? Sega. Sega
Anyway, so..yeah Higgins Bosuns. Awright. Can we...make laser guns with them?
All kidding aside, I'm glad they're more sure than ever, and look forward to them being able to use these discoveries to create exotic matter and maybe black holes/time machines/etc.
It can't explain the tides *chortle*
Escape Goat
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We have to invent a phase inducer and the heisenberg compensators first!
We just need to figure out how to make Dilithium crystals. The rest will fall into place.
Musha_Soturi
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Didn't get to watch any of it, stupid work. I would really like to watch this when I get home, so if anyone knows where I can get it would be most appreciated.
Yeah I missed it as well and I really hope I can find it posted online later today. Really wanted to watch it.
WorriedCitizen
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Don't know about that. But if the higgs field around a projectile could be manipulated we could make extremely devastating kinetic weapons afaik.
LOL
Yes please. We need space age weaponry. Aliens and shit.
POWERSPHERE
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So it looks like we are on track.
cutmeamango
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Now they just need to find Murtaugh particles to make lethal weapons.
malingenie
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This helped me understand it better a few days ago.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/03/higgs-boson-cartoon/
devildog820
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I'd like to pretend I didn't laugh out loud.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Only if you're happy to throw conservation of energy/momentum out of the window. Otherwise you're just stuck with the same old projectiles being propelled in what is almost guaranteed to be a far more expensive way.
GungHo
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Motorboating for all.
Very exciting. For those who do not follow physics, here is the simple version:
1) The Higgs boson has been the theoretical particle which gives all other particles mass. How it does this is complicated; for a beginners version, just know that it does. This means that all mass in the universe (which is to say, all the stuff on earth and the sun and everything we think of as "stuff") comes in to creation because of this particle.
2) Today, CERN announced that they have found a particle with the same weight and properties as a Higgs Boson to a sigma 5 level of certainty, which means they are 99.9999% certain that this particle exists.
Thus, While they cannot prove yet that this is in fact the Higgs Boson, what they can say is that they are 99.999% sure that they have found a partical that walks, talks, behaves, and weighs the same as a Higgs Boson. Thus, it is very, very likely that the Higgs Boson has been found, and that the origin of mass in the universe has been officially and empirically discovered.
1) The Higgs boson has been the theoretical particle which gives all other particles mass. How it does this is complicated; for a beginners version, just know that it does. This means that all mass in the universe (which is to say, all the stuff on earth and the sun and everything we think of as "stuff") comes in to creation because of this particle.
2) Today, CERN announced that they have found a particle with the same weight and properties as a Higgs Boson to a sigma 5 level of certainty, which means they are 99.9999% certain that this particle exists.
Thus, While they cannot prove yet that this is in fact the Higgs Boson, what they can say is that they are 99.999% sure that they have found a partical that walks, talks, behaves, and weighs the same as a Higgs Boson. Thus, it is very, very likely that the Higgs Boson has been found, and that the origin of mass in the universe has been officially and empirically discovered.
Insane Metal
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This is one of the most important moments for science in our modern times. Amazing. It's too bad that the discoveries will only end up in exciting things in the long term. I hope I'll be alive to see them.
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