Higgs Boson may have been found.

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Amphy23

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"We have it."​

Anybody who wasn't a hermit for the past few years will most likely know about the Large Hadron Collider and CERN. The rumors flying around were those where it would create some black hole that would destroy the world, bla, bla, bla.
Those who created the LHC and CERN laboratories will know that it could bring other discoveries. One of the most important projects carried out was to find the elusive Higgs Boson.

CERN said:
So what's a Higgs boson? Let me take you back....Way back. The 'Big Bang' happens. Stuff is flying around at the speed of light - particles of all kinds with no time to get to know each other. A trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, the Higgs field is switched on - its a bit like putting ping-pong balls on a tray of sand. It slows the particles down. They get to cuddle up and form matter - the stuff we're made of. The Higgs particles give matter mass.
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And about what the Higgs-Boson can do? If you can do it properly, you can modify mass, density, and anything associated with it. This is why the HB is commonly known as the "God Particle."
What if we could create armor that wouldn't be as strong as titanium, yet weigh lighter than your iPod? Or maybe we could finally figure out how to reach the speed of light? After all, experimenting with it could make the rocket weightless, done correctly. This opens a massive new doorway into Particle Physics.
Of course, they could always be wrong. But the new sub-particle is so consistent with the Higgs-Boson, it is highly probable that it is the famed HB. There's only a 1 in 3,000,000 chance that they are wrong about this discovery.
This will be one of the most important discoveries in modern science. That is, if it's not the most important.
What do you think of this possible discovery?​

Links:
Foxnews
Reuters
Nature

"We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics."
--Rolf Huer​
 
CERN have been wrong before.
*Sits back, grabs a chair and waits for what the rest of the world thinks.

Also Stephen Hawking losing $100.
Edit: Tardis' for every house!
 
Part of me has an eerie feeling about this, thats just me though :/ I think that light will always travel faster than us IMO. I like physics the way it is although making stuff weightless would be pretty cool. Guess we will just have to wait and see. Im glad they found that tiny partical though.
 
^^ Gotta agree with the above. I mean, I'm all for new discoveries, but part of me... Part of me feels gross about it. In the wrong hands, that could be terrifying. So... Yeah, not sure what to think. So I'll have to wait and see
 
^ yeah thats kinda how I feel about it. I also like new discoveries and im happy they probably found the building blocks of matter however if they experimented with that and it reacted wrong something very nasty could happen...kinda scares me a lil :/
 
As of now, this discovery means little. The Higgs Boson requires immense amounts of energy to form. You know famous equation e=mc^2? Even for a tiny bit of mass (small m), the energy required is enormous.

However, if we overcome that hurdle, it's going to be interesting. Something more devastating than the atomic bomb? We really are our worst enemy.
 
Agreed. And its not like they are gonna keep the world in the loop about what they WILL do with it. They'll experiment behind our backs, in Area 51, that nobody knows about, and when something REALLY bad happens, then the world will know. But until then, stay happy folks, and try not to think about it. I don't mankind should have this kind of power IMO. I say let sleeping dogs lie. Some secrets were not meant to be discovered.
 
I always like new discoveries, and if this is true then woot!
But I highly doubt it. These things seem to always be exaggerated a ton or completely fabricated by the media.
 
Eon said:
I always like new discoveries, and if this is true then woot!
But I highly doubt it. These things seem to always be exaggerated a ton or completely fabricated by the media.
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Let us not forget the defective sensor from earlier in the year. That gave us "Faster-than-light neutrino"
 
So CERN spent all this money to build the LHC just to find the Higgs Boson at the risk of destroying the entire universe with small black holes created on Earth? Wow, and to think all that money could've gone to better use like I dunno creating jobs in America or trying to build a weather machine to stabilize climate change and improve economies effected by weather like farming for example...
 
Card Slinger J said:
So CERN spent all this money to build the LHC just to find the Higgs Boson at the risk of destroying the entire universe with small black holes created on Earth? Wow, and to think all that money could've gone to better use like I dunno creating jobs in America or trying to build a weather machine to stabilize climate change and improve economies effected by weather like farming for example...
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Well, if they destroyed the entire universe with black holes no one would worry about not having a job, right? We'd all be dead. For all we know, we're dead right now and our subconscious created an entire life for us in the split second between our life and death as if it never happened.

Plus being able to control mass would benefit the world more than jobs in America.
 
How exactly are we dead right now just because of a scientific experiment that was proven successful with no major harm to humanity and the entire universe? Had it not have been successful or If someone managed to invent time travel recently we would have been dead by now however according to History International, time travel isn't expected to be invented for at least a century.

So as cool as it sounds I don't see any Time Lords dropping by this year anytime soon If ever and heck the Ancient Mayans may have accounted Leap Year to the Mayan Calendar and If they have had prior knowledge of Leap Year before it was implemented in the Gregorian Calendar by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. then I applaud the Mayans for their advanced homework.
 
He was joking...

And correct me of I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it is impossible to travel backwards in time.
 
alexmf2 said:
And correct me of I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it is impossible to travel backwards in time.
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As time doesn't technically exist, it is impossible to travel in time.

...yet
 
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:O if this is true, we gon' teleport anywhere! (Nationals costs v)
 
Amphy23 said:

And about what the Higgs-Boson can do? If you can do it properly, you can modify mass, density, and anything associated with it. This is why the HB is commonly known as the "God Particle."​
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This is not necessarily possible, at a glance. For example, we have a good understanding of electromagnetism on the sub-atomic level, however nothing we yet know allows us to manipulate the charge of quarks and leptons (and correspondingly, the charge of all non-fundamental particles). What we observe in the universe today is that particles retain a constant rest mass even in the most extreme astrophysical situations (such as in supernovae, black hole accretion disks, etc). I think that if the Higgs field were malleable to a point where we on Earth would ever have the capability to control it, we would see deviations of mass in high energy astrophysical situations. The fact that we do not seem to observe these deviations leads me to suspect that we will not be able to control mass... But yes, it would be cool if we could!

Card Slinger J said:
So CERN spent all this money to build the LHC just to find the Higgs Boson at the risk of destroying the entire universe with small black holes created on Earth?
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Error 1: The LHC has more applications than "just" trying to find the Higgs Boson. For example, it is also being used to look for super symmetric particles. Testing physics at high energy conditions allows us to properly evaluate our understanding of the universe.

Error 2: It was not a likely danger, there was no notable "risk". This is the conclusion of scientific investigations conducted both by, and external to, CERN. We also do not observe miniature black holes in nature, where high energy collisions on par with the LHC do indeed occur.

Error 3: Black holes operate within a limited range, the entire universe would not be in jeopardy even if we did create a black hole.

Card Slinger J said:
Wow, and to think all that money could've gone to better use like I dunno creating jobs in America or trying to build a weather machine to stabilize climate change and improve economies effected by weather like farming for example...
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Comment: You have bigger fish to fry before even considering the LHC as a money sink. America's war efforts are costing them trillions of dollars, for example.
 
When my father read about this, he joked that the scientists could see the number "42" on the Higgs boson once they got a close enough look.... :D
 
RunningWithScizors said:
When my father read about this, he joked that the scientists could see the number "42" on the Higgs boson once they got a close enough look.... :D
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Douglas Adams said:
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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