Durrtay Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Cern has found evidence of the Higgs boson particles. It's bringing in 3 physicist to make it 99.9995% sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andrews_31 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 If this is true, Higgs boson is a game changer..........................a VERY big one!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent individual with a very high reading level and an even more impressive vocabulary. That being said, I have now read two different articles on this subject and still haven't figured out what the f*ck we're talking about here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicBeardMan Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent individual with a very high reading level and an even more impressive vocabulary. That being said, I have now read two different articles on this subject and still haven't figured out what the f*ck we're talking about here.Basically, god is an atom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capologist Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Retcon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychic Gibbon Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent individual with a very high reading level and an even more impressive vocabulary. That being said, I have now read two different articles on this subject and still haven't figured out what the f*ck we're talking about here.I don't really understand it either, but from what I've read I think explains part how things like quarks and electrons function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clownorg Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Retcon!Rectum ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATL Bear Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Actually, the "God Particle" idea is what people outside of science labeled it. In reality, this is as much about settling an internal scientific debate than anything else. In laymen's terms, it's the theoretical (or proven) particle that gives mass to subatomic particles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self Made Soul Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 The Higgs-Boson has about as much to do with God as the Loch Ness Monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrow69 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 on closer inspection, tha scientists discovered that tha God Particle was circumcised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grrrillapmpn Inc.® Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 can it be smoked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Rectum ?**** near killedem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goal Line D Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Thread needs a little music... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 This is nothing more than an excuse for athiests to admit there is a God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattRyan2Canton Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 wake me when we have enough power to surpass the sol.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durrtay Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 ThisActually, the "God Particle" idea is what people outside of science labeled it. In reality, this is as much about settling an internal scientific debate than anything else. In laymen's terms, it's the theoretical (or proven) particle that gives mass to subatomic particles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDaveG Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent individual with a very high reading level and an even more impressive vocabulary. That being said, I have now read two different articles on this subject and still haven't figured out what the f*ck we're talking about here.Well, from the Wikipedia page:"The Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. It belongs to a class of particles known as bosons, characterized by an integer value of their spin quantum number. The Higgs field is a quantum field that fills all of space, and explains why fundamental particles (or elementary particles) such as quarks and electrons have mass. The Higgs boson is an excitation of the Higgs field above its ground state.The existence of the Higgs boson is predicted by the Standard Model to explain how spontaneous breaking of electroweak symmetry (the Higgs mechanism) takes place in nature, which in turn explains why other elementary particles have mass.[Note 1] Its discovery would further validate the Standard Model as essentially correct, as it is the only elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model that has not yet been observed in particle physics experiments.[2] The Standard Model completely fixes the properties of the Higgs boson, except for its mass. It is expected to have no spin and no electric or color charge, and it interacts with other particles through weak interaction and Yukawa interactions. Alternative sources of the Higgs mechanism that do not need the Higgs boson are also possible and would be considered if the existence of the Higgs boson were ruled out. They are known as Higgsless models.Experiments to determine whether the Higgs boson exists are currently being performed using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and were performed at Fermilab's Tevatron until its closure in late 2011. Mathematical consistency of the Standard Model requires that any mechanism capable of generating the masses of elementary particles become visible at energies above 1.4 TeV;[3] therefore, the LHC (designed to collide two 7-TeV proton beams) is expected to be able to answer the question of whether or not the Higgs boson actually exists.[4] In December 2011, Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli, who were then spokespersons of the two main experiments at the LHC (ATLAS and CMS) both reported independently that their data hints at a possibility the Higgs may exist with a mass around 125 GeV/c2 (about 133 proton masses, on the order of 10−25 kg). They also reported that the original range under investigation has been narrowed down considerably and that a mass outside approximately 115–130 GeV/c2 is almost ruled out.[5] No conclusive answer yet exists, although it is expected that the LHC will provide sufficient data by the end of 2012 for a definite answer.[1][6][7][8] On 4 July 2012, Fabiola Gianotti and Joseph Incandela, current spokespersons for the ATLAS and CMS experiments, are presenting the latest results on the Higgs from the LHC."I don't see what's so unclear about it, really......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capologist Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I don't see what's so unclear about it, really.........Says the dude who makes me look up words in his posts in the dictionary most of the time (and I'm far from unintelligent)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifersam597 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 In short this is the particle that gives atoms it mass. Without it atoms would fly around the universe at the speed of light and be unable to bind to each other to create all material in the universe. Also without mass you have no gravity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 In short this is the particle that gives atoms it mass. Without it atoms would fly around the universe at the speed of light and be unable to bind to each other to create all material in the universe. Also without mass you have no gravity.You just confused me even more.Why were scientists looking for something they knew already existed? Atoms don't fly around the universe at the speed of light without being able to bind to each other. Did they not already know this? I ******* knew that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychic Gibbon Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 You just confused me even more.Why were scientists looking for something they knew already existed? Atoms don't fly around the universe at the speed of light without being able to bind to each other. Did they not already know this? I ******* knew that.You can't say something is fact if you have never observed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 You can't say something is fact if you have never observed it.If they've never observed it then how do they know what it looks like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychic Gibbon Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 (edited) If they've never observed it then how do they know what it looks like?Based on the calculations they thought explained the particles and so they looked for the markers. Edited July 3, 2012 by Psychic Gibbon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Well explained here and the guy says it with an English accent so it's sounds right too.http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/jul/03/what-is-a-higgs-boson-video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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