Higgs boson - discuss (mature version)

[zykron]

Alright let's try this again folks:

http://theync.com/forum/newreply.php...eply&p=6406917

Scientists have spent $7 billion to find this Higgs Bosun...so what does this mean? a leap in technology? time travel? a new energy resource?
Perhaps Zycron can enlighten us?

Elementary particle physics is a field where "quantum mechanics" meets "group theory." Having said that, the Higgs particle is a prediction from group theory, but because of its expected physical properties, the particles are expected to be few and far (or at least hard to detect). As I said, discovering the particle would lead to extraordinary media attention, and I can almost guarantee you, if it's true, will earn a Nobel prize.

Having said that, this video (TWO HOURS), which is also the news report from CERN, will probably be more meaningful than me trying to explain it. I'm also not an expert particle physicist so I leave it to some other YNC physics nerd to step in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAlgX4FNiyM

Let's keep this one on topic...


Here are some news articles:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86008K20120704

http://www.sfgate.com/science/articl...on-3684823.php

Scientists announced Wednesday that nature's most elusive and fundamental subnuclear particle has almost certainly been discovered, and Bay Area physicists who have sought it for decades were amazed, delighted and determined to pin it down at last.

"It's mind-boggling," said one. "Amazing," said another, and everyone in the close-knit physics community here was willing to liken its importance to the discovery of the DNA sequence in the human body.

The long-sought particle called the Higgs boson - if it's real - is what gives protons, electrons, neutrons and all the other particles inside atoms their mass, and was probably responsible for creating all the particles that first formed in the Big Bang, when the universe began.

And the chances are "less than 1 in a million that it's a fluke," said the physicists in Geneva whose announcement Wednesday stirred so much elation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...?utm_hp_ref=tw

This is all over the news!

[Badger]

I remember another thread where the Hadron Collider and the creation of a micro quantum singularity were discussed at length. This also included a conversation about The 'God particle' but I can't find it anywhere! I've exhausted my search options!

[Kurt Cobain]

interesting i guess.
Its probally gonna take years for them to find out if its actually what they think it is
Guess the christian cant win arguments against atheists after this

[boxsetboy]

interesting i guess.
Its probally gonna take years for them to find out if its actually what they think it is
Guess the christian cant win arguments against atheists after this

....depends on the Christian ? fool never make the Assumption.

[True North]

I will say it again here-

History changing times, if it turns out to be the legendary Higgs boson.

The concept of dark matter/energy and even gravity, has gone without a definitive explanation in the current paradigm.

Considering the breakthroughs science has made, in the short time since mapping the human gnome, not so long ago...
I say we are in for some very interesting advancements.

[True North]

*bump*

Just an aside
This is a fantastic book, to give you a "sort version" understanding of how the world works.
Very readable and made for the layperson.

[drongo]

Oh zycron....U fail mate...YOUR a BULLSHITTER ..but i wont tell nobody...

[drongo]

And Badger....have you anything on ya puter that shouldnt be there??...JUST SAYIN ....

[Badger]

And Badger....have you anything on ya puter that shouldnt be there??...JUST SAYIN ....

Yes SHIT LOADS, but why ask me in a thread about the 'God Particle'?

[drongo]

Yes SHIT LOADS, but why ask me in a thread about the 'God Particle'?

maybe cause u think ur fucking GOD here..do u??

[checkered Shirt]

you seem pissed off drongo, so, to cheer you up, please tell me more about your lucky cuntry

[True North]

I would like to find out what people think of the 'String' theory?
I always found it to be the answer with no body to it...
Gave the answer to 2+2 but has too many loose ends.

Far beyond my own comprehension to understand the physics and mathematics behind it all- but I read others reports.
This finding may just blow that out of the water and generate some hard evidence to the cornerstones of the universe.
(sorry but that gives me a chubby)