We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics.
 

CERN

This is very exciting!

ok!!

Will all you pointy-headed types please elaborate in layman's terminology (or as best you're able) as to the significance and everyday relevance of this proposed (for now) discovery?

Higgs Particle
 

Basically it is belived to be what make gravity "work" allowing molecules to form into solids. Without the Higgs particle/force/??? molecules would not slow down enough to form a mass.

or the thing that makes the math work out-

it sure is a porky lil' devil

So the particle that is responsible for mass has a mass itself -- I guess that makes sense. And if that makes sense then I suppose it would follow that the thing that causes mass would have a lot of it.

Will it cure cancer?

how many in a black audi wagon?

Is it faster than a well setup 944?

^ That's inconceivable!

Actually, yes.

It is a more significant step in that direction that you might realize.

The breakthrough gives chemists (and after all, what is chemistry but physics) a tool that could allow direct "targeting" of atomic and molecular interactions that form the basis of the unwanted biochemical interactions that cause cancer cells to be created and multiply.

This is not science fiction, as research institution are working on next generation medical treatments based more and more on the actual structure of matter.

P-chem & O-chem have come a long way since I was in school.

"hints of.." is still theoretical physics, back to the linear accelerator...


Common, do you think they would have said "we found jack" considering the time effort money that went into CeRn?

I hope this leads to us actually getting transporters! I'm tired of having to drive and fly everywhere I want to go....

it sure is a porky lil' devil
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is this the thing that got all the catholics, (and that albino hit man) all hot and bothered in that demons and dragons movie (starring tom hanks)?

hmmm

:confused:

Nevermind the spam bot.

Doubtful, but it might get us artificial gravity and anti-gravity!

how many years until they get that sucka up to full power?

then we may know which of the 5 it found

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...

:D

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."

These are funny, keep them coming. :)

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???

Excellent! Very fascinating!


I mean it. :)

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.

Higgs Bosons for sale on eBay already

HIGGS BOSON HANDMADE PLUSH SUBATOMIC PARTICLE

http://www.bioclinictec.com/media/1/...1b961bab_m.jpg

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

Is there something beyond the orgasm?

That was a Higgens Boson?

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:)

From the link found in the original press release.

CERN Press Release
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)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...and_demons.jpg

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

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

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.

so maybe it was really a Higgs-Bosun particle?







































http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1341526530.jpg

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

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.