Doc Lynam
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Higgs Boson so called "god particle" discovered claim LHC!
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Manx Shearwater
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It was down the back of the sofa the whole time!
Who'd a thunk it?
Who'd a thunk it?
Gazwag
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I hear the G spot is next on the list
Hillian1
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I will sleep better now this has been found, how long was it lost for?
The Large One
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I've been following this on the news this morning - there's a fair whack of coverage on this.
I haven't got a f***ing clue what they're on about.
I haven't got a f***ing clue what they're on about.
Manx Shearwater
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Manx Shearwater
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This. I've tried reading about it about ten times and still haven't got a clue what it actually means.
Hillian1
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From what I gathered, at the moment of the big bang, the higgs whatnot appeared briefly and atoms that went through the afore mentioned higgs thingummy took on mass which created stuff.
skipper734
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So the Universe is like a Flapjack. Oats and Golden Syrup, the oats are the stuff we can see and know about, the Higgs-Boson is the Golden Syup sticking to the oats and giving them mass. Still a lot of space left to fill.
Flipping a coin and getting heads 20 out of 20 is the level of proof which has been obtained. So still maybe not correct.
Flipping a coin and getting heads 20 out of 20 is the level of proof which has been obtained. So still maybe not correct.
Gazwag
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What right at the bottom, close to the rug
Manx Shearwater
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Possibly, but as I'm a man, I'm not bothered in looking for it to be honest.
acrossthepond
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So the Universe is like a Flapjack. Oats and Golden Syrup, the oats are the stuff we can see and know about, the Higgs-Boson is the Golden Syup sticking to the oats and giving them mass. Still a lot of space left to fill.
Flipping a coin and getting heads 20 out of 20 is the level of proof which has been obtained. So still maybe not correct.
Or is that flipping a coin and getting tails once out of 3.5 million flips?
It's more like knowing you have a cupcake, but the only bit of it you can actually see/eat is the glace cherry on top.
I love cup cakes btw
The Large One
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William Ward-Higgs wrote 'Sussex By The Sea'.
Is this named after him? It would make sense, you know.
Is this named after him? It would make sense, you know.
KZNSeagull
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That's good. Now they can carry on with creating the black hole that will engulf central Europe and thereby solve the European debt crisis.
And no, having read the book "Massive", I still have no idea what they are talking about either!
And no, having read the book "Massive", I still have no idea what they are talking about either!
Gritt23
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Was watching Prof Brian Cox on Eden last night, try to explain to me how a dying star collapses and creates all the elements. I do REALLY try to understand, but it is just too much for me. He really does try to explain it in such a logical way, with such enthusiasm, that I think if he'd been my physics / chemistry teacher, I'd have absolutely LOVED the whole subject. But as it is, I find it really hard to get my head around almost any of it.
I loved the bit whereby he said that Beetlejuice, could go supernova "at any moment" which in cosmology that means, anytime in the next million years. Sounded a bit like NSCs definition of iminent.
I loved the bit whereby he said that Beetlejuice, could go supernova "at any moment" which in cosmology that means, anytime in the next million years. Sounded a bit like NSCs definition of iminent.
The Fifth Column
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Me too! I'm a reasonably intelligent person and have read several reports and articles on this and even the simplified laymans explanations and i may as well be reading chinese upside down. I still don't understand it or even have any idea what they are talking about. Still it appears an apparently significant and momentus scientific discovery so well done to them.
Albumen
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Betelgeuse could die tomorrow or the next thousand years. And boy will it be fun when it happens.
Higgs almost proves particle physics theories from the 50's about how mass is created. It's a special day.
jgmcdee
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There are lots of implications, but the one that matters most immediately is that it validates the "standard model" of particle physics. The standard model has been kicking around for something like 50 years, but there were lots of holes in it where particles should exist but they couldn't prove or disprove their existence. The Higgs boson is the last of these particles to be found and now that it has been physicists can get on with adding in all of the other missing pieces (such as gravity) knowing that they have a relatively solid base on which to build.