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 Post subject: Higgs boson: FOUND
PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:58 
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Sounds like they haven't quite got it to the statistical level they like ( if I'm reading all the sgima stuff right ) but I imagine that'll come in soon.


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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For those of us who are idiots, what does this actually mean? What happens next? What does this tell us?


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

http://blog.vixra.org/2011/12/04/what-w ... v-tell-us/

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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For those of us who are idiots, what does this actually mean? What happens next? What does this tell us?

That the ring can only be unmade in the fires of Mount Doom, whence it came.


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Sounds like they haven't quite got it to the statistical level they like ( if I'm reading all the sgima stuff right ) but I imagine that'll come in soon.

The measurements have a five-sigma significance, meaning rhere's a 99.9999% chance they are genuine and not from random errors. And the same result was obtained by two independent teams. Scientists are always cautious about certainty, but this is certainly pretty bloody likely.


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Can someone explain it in words that I'll understand, I've never been a huge follower of physics? I've gotten as far as:

"this makes shit have mass"

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Can someone explain it in words that I'll understand, I've never been a huge follower of physics? I've gotten as far as:

"this makes shit have mass"


Nah mate, that's Catholics.

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Press conference on now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18702455


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/313665 ... iggs-boson

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Now we have the technology to find these sub atomic particles can the design be further enhanced so we can ascertain if Myps is male or female?

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Trooper wrote:
For those of us who are idiots, what does this actually mean? What happens next? What does this tell us?

1. It means they thought there was some glue-type stuff that stopped all our atoms drifting apart, seeing as how were supposedly mostly made of space, and now they think they've found out they were right.

2. What happens next? Brian Cox's grinning face will be all over the media for a few days, trying to fool us into believing we understand it as much as HE does. We still won't, but we don't like to appear stoopid, so we'll pretend we do. Also, someone will try to make money out of it. Maybe Apple will use it for some kind of app. I doubt that there will be a kaboom, but if there is, we won't know about it.

3. What does this tell us? see answer No. 1.


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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They'll make guns that make the 'glue' go away now.

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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2. What happens next?

In a little over 20 years time, CERN create a time machine and takes over the world.


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[url]bit.ly/a2zkrD[/url] <- RT @guardianstyle Overheard "I don't care what t Higgs boson headline is, just make sure we spell Hadron correctly"


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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Our quiz team won best team name for "Partial physics gives me a large hadron" :DD

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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Higgs Boson goes into a Catholic church.
The priest says, "You're not welcome here."
Higgs Boson says "You can't have mass
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 Post subject: Re: Higgs boson: FOUND
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Just watch and dont click through to read any of the comments.


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