We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics.

[Mothy]

A Higgs boson walks into a church.

"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts the priest.

"But without me, how can you have mass?" asks the particle.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Mothy

A Higgs boson walks into a church.

"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts the priest.

"But without me, how can you have mass?" asks the particle.

Ugh...

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Mothy

A Higgs boson walks into a church.

"We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts the priest.

"But without me, how can you have mass?" asks the particle.

Werner Heisenberg got pulled over for speeding one day. Cop says, "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?? Heisenberg replied, "No, but at least I know where I am."

[Flieger]

These are funny, keep them coming.

[Mothy]

The Higgs became known as the "God particle" because it is deemed to exist everywhere, determines the nature of matter but is agonisingly hard to nail down.

Seen on a T-shirt: "I finally found the Higgs boson - it was behind the couch the whole time"

BREAKING: Apple has patent on Higgs Boson particle; cease-and-desist letter sent to CERN and the Universe.

For lovers of Cricket: God, out for a quark, bowled Higgs, caught Boson.

O.M.HB

It cost 10billion dollars to find the God particle, what's it going to cost to find the rest of Him/Her?

A Higgs boson walks into a bar and orders a drink. It's about to pay and the barman refuses, saying "For you; no charge"

Will the Church allow two Higgs Bosons to marry? They may be neutrons and not able to make sub particles.

Higgs-Boson discovery proves nothing really matters until you've had a bang...

Has anybody asked Sheldon for his thought on this???

[livi]

Excellent! Very fascinating!


I mean it.

[Chocaholic]

Really interesting. Too bad Einstein isn't around to comment. He struggled for years to document his "unified" theory. Perhaps this was the missing piece.

[petrolhead611]

Higgs Bosons for sale on eBay already

[red-beard]

HIGGS BOSON HANDMADE PLUSH SUBATOMIC PARTICLE

[island911]

Originally Posted by Mothy

The Higgs became known as the "God particle" because it is deemed to exist everywhere, determines the nature of matter but is agonisingly hard to nail down.

Seen on a T-shirt: "I finally found the Higgs boson - it was behind the couch the whole time"..

iirc, Before that our Jeff Higgins found one in the shower drain.

[FLYGEEZER]

Is there something beyond the orgasm?

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by island911

iirc, Before that our Jeff Higgens found one in the shower drain.

That was a Higgens Boson?

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by petrolhead611

Higgs Bosons for sale on eBay already

I sold 4 on craigslist last week. I had to take the serial numbers off them first... but once that was done...they were gone

[kach22i]

From the link found in the original press release.

CERN Press Release

The Standard Model describes the fundamental particles from which we, and every visible thing in the universe, are made, and the forces acting between them. All the matter that we can see, however, appears to be no more than about 4% of the total. A more exotic version of the Higgs particle could be a bridge to understanding the 96% of the universe that remains obscure.

I watched the Angels & Demons movie two days ago, and read the book about six years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_(film)


Those jokes were pretty good, thanks.

The elusive particle: 5 Implications of finding Higgs Boson
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/05/elusive-particle-5-implications-finding-higgs-boson/#ixzz1zmP2yOMm

[RWebb]

[sammyg2]

"Yo mama's so fat, she tore a hole in the Higgs field!"

[Brando]

Let's not jump to conclusions... Even the researchers at CERN said they did not discover the Higgs-Boson particle, but something that behaved like it.

[RWebb]

so maybe it was really a Higgs-Bosun particle?

[pavulon]

ahhh...a subatomic impostor!! Never trust things you can't see with your own eyes.

[kang]

I find this stuff fascinating.

With this discovery, they're starting to talk about what happened before the big bang:

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

From my layman's understanding, it's not the particle itself that gives everything mass, it's the Higgs field. The field is like syrup. As other particles (protons, electrons, etc) travel through it, they get dragged down. Some particles don't interact with this field at all, they are the particles with no mass.

The particle itself is just a localized excitation of the field. In the LHC, the field got excited via the collisions they caused. The field is everywhere, even if there are no particles present.

The electro-magnetic field is similar. It's everywhere. A localized excitation of the field is a photon, but the field is everywhere.

I think of a photon traveling through the EM field like a ripple travels through water. The water remains motionless, yet the ripple travels.

Like I said, fascinating.