Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC


Science | 207044 hits | Jul 04 12:36 pm | Posted by: Newfy
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider claim the discovery of a particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:22 pm
    Ghawd, how I hate reporters.

    They made no such claim, they said 'they have confident evidence of the Higgs Boson where the Standard Model predicts it should be'.

    The particle itself would only exist for trillionths of a second, too short for us to detect.

  2. by avatar raydan
    Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:21 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    The particle itself would only exist for trillionths of a second, too short for us to detect.

    Not much time for a sex life. :cry:

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:56 am
    "raydan" said
    The particle itself would only exist for trillionths of a second, too short for us to detect.

    Not much time for a sex life. :cry:

    Time stretches as an object approaches the speed of light. For all we know, the little Bosons experience a lifetime of particle 'interactions'.

  4. by avatar PluggyRug
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:21 am
    "DrCaleb" said
    The particle itself would only exist for trillionths of a second, too short for us to detect.

    Not much time for a sex life. :cry:

    Time stretches as an object approaches the speed of light. For all we know, the little Bosons experience a lifetime of particle 'interactions'.


    Wonder what a baby Boson looks like.

    Methinks all Bosons are gay and still hiding in the closet.

  5. by avatar raydan
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:45 am
    "PluggyRug" said
    Wonder what a baby Boson looks like.

    Methinks all Bosons are gay and still hiding in the closet.

    So that's why they're so hard to find. :?

  6. by avatar Zipperfish Gold Member
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:35 pm
    Here's an excellent article, for those of you curious what the fuss is all about:



    How to explain Higgs boson discovery

    Everyone's talking about the 'God particle' � but what if someone asks you to explain it. Well, it depends if it's an A-level physics student or a religious fundamentalist. Just use our guide


    My favourite:

    For English undergraduates: "The Higgs boson (pronounced "boatswain") is a type of subatomic punctuation with a weight somewhere between a tiny semicolon and an invisible comma. Without it the universe would be a meaningless cloud of gibberish � a bit like The Da Vinci Code, if you read that."

  7. by avatar uwish
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:00 pm
    it's there, they are just being cautious and need to verify the decay particles.

    This is really a monumental achievement in particle physics.

  8. by Thanos
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:03 pm
    Good work by the physics nerds. If this leads to the development of an operable warp drive in the next ten years, just so I can finally get off this fucking planet and away from all these goddamn morons, then I'm all for it.

    Hey, did I just say that out loud? 8O

    - Daniel "Thanos" Plainview

  9. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:19 pm
    "Thanos" said
    Good work by the physics nerds. If this leads to the development of an operable warp drive in the next ten years, just so I can finally get off this fucking planet and away from all these goddamn morons, then I'm all for it.


    So are we.

  10. by avatar andyt
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:26 pm
    Why does nobody talk about the Higgs Field?

  11. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:15 pm
    "andyt" said
    Why does nobody talk about the Higgs Field?


    Don't the Dodgers play there?

    Because if we tell people that the mass of each type of elementary particle depends on the zero energy value of the Higgs field and how strongly the partocles couple to the Higgs Field; while the mass of the Higgs boson depends on how the energy density of the Higgs field changes as the strength of the Higgs field varies. And that the mass of the Higgs boson is just the energy needed to make the Higgs field vibrate. . . their eyes glaze over and they go into a temporary coma.

  12. by avatar andyt
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:21 pm
    I just find the concept of a ubiquitous field that has an effect on all matter easier to try to wrap my head around than particles that only exist for very brief moments. Although the ball cage analogy given in Zipp's link helped a lot too.

    So if Higgs bosons have a field, what about other bosons etc - where's their field?

    So is there a Higgs force?

  13. by avatar raydan
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:31 pm
    The physicists are just making this stuff up as they go... more grant money.

  14. by avatar Unsound
    Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:51 pm
    "Thanos" said
    Good work by the physics nerds. If this leads to the development of an operable warp drive in the next ten years, just so I can finally get off this fucking planet and away from all these goddamn morons, then I'm all for it.

    Hey, did I just say that out loud? 8O

    - Daniel "Thanos" Plainview

    You don't think the morons will follow?



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