Higgs-Bosun Discovered?

[3113]

And here's the big bang for the Fourth of July...From here:

Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs...."The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe."

Two independent studies of data produced by smashing proton particles together at CERN's Large Hadron Collider produced a convergent near-certainty on the existence of the new particle. It is unclear whether it is exactly the boson Higgs described...

...Despite the excitement, physicists cautioned that there was still much to learn: "We have closed one chapter and opened another," said Peter Knight of Britain's Institute of Physics. Buchmueller at CERN said: "If I were a betting man, I would bet that it is the Higgs. But we can't say that definitely yet. It is very much a smoking duck that walks and quacks like the Higgs. But we now have to open it up and look inside before we can say that it is indeed the Higgs."

So do we party or not?

 

[mynameisben]

And here's the big bang for the Fourth of July...From here:

So do we party or not?

If you're enamored with particle physics, sure! Scientists are walking around with a big hadron and colliding into each other for good reason. Today's announcement is monumental, and may likely be the greatest discovery in particle physics that any of us will see in our lifetimes. It marks the end of a scientific quest that's nearly half a century old. They've definitely discovered "a" Higgs boson. All that's left to quibble about is whether they found "the" Higgs boson. Regardless of which grammar article they decide upon, the fact remains that what they have discovered fills many, many gaps in important and vastly fundamental theories about the nature of damn near everything.

Definitely party. It's uber cool.

 

[lance gt]

http://news.ca.msn.com/world/eureka-physicists-celebrate-evidence-of-particle

Here's another take on it.

 

[TxRad]

And here's the big bang for the Fourth of July...From here:

So do we party or not?

I think we can party. All except the smoking duck they're going to open up.

Poor duck. Didn't he know that was a no smoking area.

 

[3113]

Party On!

Definitely party. It's uber cool.

I think we can party. All except the smoking duck they're going to open up.

Well, all righty then! Suggestions for the party? No smoked duck, I got that, but what should one serve at such a party? And how should we decorate? What kind of music and what kind of cake?

 

[Dual_Triode]

Well, all righty then! Suggestions for the party? No smoked duck, I got that, but what should one serve at such a party? And how should we decorate? What kind of music and what kind of cake?

I would think the party should be hosted by Dr. Sheldon Cooper. The decorations would be all the applicable Feynman diagrams and the music would have to be Frank Zappa's posthumously released 'Finding Higgs Boson'. I don't know about cake, but how about a piece of pie?

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w498/dual_triode/pi_pie.jpg

 

[TE999]

Well, all righty then! Suggestions for the party? No smoked duck, I got that, but what should one serve at such a party? And how should we decorate? What kind of music and what kind of cake?

How about a pot of boson baked beans?

 

[estragon]

And all the guests called to the table with a Bo'sun's call...now hear this!

 

[Handley_Page]

The guys at FermiLab's "Tevatron" seem to think they may have encountered it as well.
The snag is that each of the two groups has found something different from which the same conclusion may be reached (ie., it's a Boson).

 

[estragon]

Boson in drag?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And here's the big bang for the Fourth of July...From here:

So do we party or not?

That's a question? "Do we party?" Oh, I see; it's a rhetorical question.

Party! And let's all get a look at Ms. Higgs' bosom! I'm always in favour of discovering bosoms!

 

[TxRad]

The guys at FermiLab's "Tevatron" seem to think they may have encountered it as well.
The snag is that each of the two groups has found something different from which the same conclusion may be reached (ie., it's a Boson).

Of course they are different. One is a French boson and the other is an English boson. I thought that was obvious.

Oh and Tio, that's boson, not bosom but i do like the way you think.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Of course they are different. One is a French boson and the other is an English boson. I thought that was obvious.

Oh and Tio, that's boson, not bosom but i do like the way you think.

You're stepping on dangerous ground here, TX. A boson is an elementary particle; Lit has age limits, you know. Keep your mind on more mature parts, like bosoms. And if they're in High School, they still have to be 18!

 

[TxRad]

You're stepping on dangerous ground here, TX. A boson is an elementary particle; Lit has age limits, you know. Keep your mind on more mature parts, like bosoms. And if they're in High School, they still have to be 18!

I though elementary particles were millions of years old? They may only lives separately for nano seconds but it such a beautiful flash of glory.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I though elementary particles were millions of years old? They may only lives separately for nano seconds but it such a beautiful flash of glory.

MILLIONS of years old? And they're still elementary? How many times did they get left back?

 

[TxRad]

MILLIONS of years old? And they're still elementary? How many times did they get left back?

Nobody said they were smart.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Nobody said they were smart.

Well, maybe we could use a "No Particle Left Behind" initiative from the Federal Government!

 

[lovecraft68]

Whenever I see something like this, I can;t help but imagine the amount of food, medication, education and who knows what the money spent here could buy.

Waste of time and money. No one will ever know the "secrets of the universe" never. We were not created from a bunch of atoms smashing around.

Meanwhile lets watch the amount of tent cities where the people losing their homes are going, multiply why coke bottle glass wearing geeks jerk off on their pet theories.

This has been your motivational thought of the day brought to you by yours truly.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Whenever I see something like this, I can;t help but imagine the amount of food, medication, education and who knows what the money spent here could buy.

Waste of time and money. No one will ever know the "secrets of the universe" never. We were not created from a bunch of atoms smashing around.

Meanwhile lets watch the amount of tent cities where the people losing their homes are going, multiply why coke bottle glass wearing geeks jerk off on their pet theories.

This has been your motivational thought of the day brought to you by yours truly.

It just serves the interests of the rich and the plutocrats when well-intentioned people see the quest for knowledge and understanding as a waste of money that could be used for the poor.

If we look at it that way, then we can overlook the fact that the top 400 families in the US have more total wealth than the bottom 15,000,000 families combined. If you really want to complain, complain about the CEOs who get the same for an hours time as a worker in the same company gets in a year.

Yes, let's not spend on learning; let's be dumb and let the rich get richer at the expense of the poor.

 

[3113]

Waste of time and money.

You mean like that atom bomb that was created from investigating atoms? Really, Lovey, you can't be that clueless. As you don't know what will be learned from studying these particles, you also can't know that it's a waste of money or time.

Speaking of wasting time and money...this from a porn writer wasting his time (and money as the internet is not free) on a porn site?

No one will ever know the "secrets of the universe" never.

Actually, we DO know the secrets of the universe. A lot of them. We just don't know all of them. And just because we may not be able to know all of them doesn't mean we shouldn't learn more. That's like saying to a doctor, "You'll never know how to cure all diseases, never..." so he might as well stop researching the disease your daughter has, and give upon a chance to save her. Because, after all, the money can be better spent on feeding starving kids in India, right? I'm sure someone, somewhere would feel that. And say it.

In the end, we really should do something more with our time here on this planet than just build shelters, grow food, and groom each other--as much fun as that is. We've got the time, and believe it or not, we've got the money and ingenuity. I don't look up at the Sistine Chapel and say, "Waste of time and money" and I don't look at the images from the Hubble telescope and say 'Waste of time and money" and I certainly don't feel that what physicists have learned in the past was a waste of time or money--and I certainly don't feel qualified to say that what they're learning now is a waste of time and money.

Anyone who isn't a physicist and thinks they are able to say as much...is most certainly wasting my time.

 

[mynameisben]

Anyone who isn't a physicist and thinks they are able to say as much...is most certainly wasting my time.

And anyone who is a physicist and thinks they are able to say as much is wasting everybody's time.

 

[JackLuis]

Scientists finally measure cosmic ‘dark matter’​

While the rest of the world was celebrating the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, researchers at the University Observatory Munich and the University of Michigan were fastidiously working on yet another major discovery that will likely also lead to fundamental changes in humanity’s understanding of the universe.

Specifically, scientists announced in a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature that they have, for the first time ever, been able to measure dark matter “filament” in a galactic supercluster.

And if that made absolutely no sense to you, you’re not alone.

"You mean there are actual people at the other end of the WWW?"

 

[Handley_Page]

See this.


And this one: