Higgs Boson - High Physics IQ responses only

[Brock Landers]

While we were celebrating America's birthday by drinking, stuffing our faces with delicious BBQ and blowing stuff up, some smart scientist guys over in Europe announced the discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson particle.

What does it mean in the grand scheme of things?  Can we finally time travel?  Go to an alternate universe?  Accidentally destroy ourselves????  This is too much for me.

[steve dave]

they didn't find crap. just wanted to take some of the shine off our day.

[Brock Landers]

Damn.  I was hoping at the very least this could lead to the invention of one of those hover boards in Back to the Future 2.

[AbeFroman]

At the risk of sending this to the birther pit, it proves God doesn't exist, or at least not in the form that theists believe.

[steve dave]

Damn.  I was hoping at the very least this could lead to the invention of one of those hover boards in Back to the Future 2.

America will invent those whenever we feel like it.  not a bunch of pinkos whose asses we've whipped in hundreds of wars.

[puniraptor]

It means some really long mathematical formula may be correct but still may be wrong. That's about it.

[hemmy]

Something about a higgs boson going to church for mass, etc.

[slobber]

It means some really long mathematical formula may be correct but still may be wrong. That's about it.

This is correct. It happened in Europe. They will have to send it over to some 10 year old kids in Asia to prove/disprove it.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

At the risk of sending this to the birther pit, it proves God doesn't exist, or at least not in the form that theists believe.

 

[CHONGS]

they found a higgs-like particle in a mass range reasonable within the standard model

probably explains why some W and Z bosons are massive

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

For the record, they didn't actually find the Higgs Boson particle, they just found what they believe to be evidence that it exists.

Basically they smashed some really small particles together at the speed of light and found that they broke (No crap, right?) and that they can trace this Higgs Boson particle from the crash. They know it decays very fast because it is so unstable.

It is dubbed "The God Particle" because it supposedly proves how everything else in the universe got its mass. Whether or not it disproves religion is something these guys give zero shits about.

Basically, they found Bigfoot's footprint, so they claim Bigfoot exists, but they also know they'll never actually see or catch him.

[Rage Against the McKee]

At the risk of sending this to the birther pit, it proves God doesn't exist, or at least not in the form that theists believe.

I can see how God not striking these dudes down with lightning for taking the shine off of our day might make you believe he doesn't exist, but it actually proves nothing.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

At the risk of sending this to the birther pit, it proves God doesn't exist, or at least not in the form that theists believe.

I can see how God not striking these dudes down with lightning for taking the shine off of our day might make you believe he doesn't exist, but it actually proves nothing.

The name "God particle" has nothing to do with God.

When answering questions about the name of God Particle, Professor Higgs said: "It has nothing to do with me. It's a joke."

He clarified that the name came from a book, whose authors originally used the title "Goddamn particle" because Higgs boson is so hard to find, but the editor didn't like that and changed it to "God particle".

That name is not used by physicists but fairly eye-catching for the general public, said Professor Higgs.

[steve dave]

American scientists already know of 4 even smaller particles than this and they found them without even trying in their sleep

[puniraptor]

Just in case anyone was thinking this has nothing to do with EMAW


http://www.newswise.com/articles/god-particle-announcement-gives-weight-to-scientific-theory-university-contributions

['taterblast]

Just in case anyone was thinking this has nothing to do with EMAW


http://www.newswise.com/articles/god-particle-announcement-gives-weight-to-scientific-theory-university-contributions

yawn. changing the way we look at the universe.

[hemmy]

American scientists already know of 4 even smaller particles than this and they found them without even trying in their sleep

Many of the scientists at CERN are American professors.

[Bloodfart]

There is an hole growing ever larger at the CERN facitlity as we speak.  Better get right with your maker...

[CHONGS]

While we were celebrating America's birthday by drinking, stuffing our faces with delicious BBQ and blowing stuff up, some smart scientist guys over in Europe announced the discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson particle.

What does it mean in the grand scheme of things?  Can we finally time travel?  Go to an alternate universe?  Accidentally destroy ourselves????  This is too much for me.

it really means that the higgs field likely exists (or something that seems very much like it).  now we get to study the higgs boson in hope its tells us more about the field and how other particles interact with the field.  one day we may be able to explain why the muons have so much more mass than electrons.

[Dugout DickStone]

American scientists already know of 4 even smaller particles than this and they found them without even trying in their sleep

This.  Our scientists have just held off announcing it because there are still like 29 million fools in our country who think some white guy with a flowing gray beard who wears robes created the entire universe in 144 hours.

[felix rex]

Isn't it weird that this is all happening while Missouri is gone?

[Dugout DickStone]

 

Isn't it weird that this is all happening while Missouri is gone?

Missouri is a nice singing/writing/service industry school.  They are a joke at man stuff like science, engineering, discovering god.  They will mix you a great old fashioned though.

[8manpick]

American scientists already know of 4 even smaller particles than this and they found them without even trying in their sleep

This.  Our scientists have just held off announcing it because there are still like 29 million fools in our country who think some white guy with a flowing gray beard who wears robes created the entire universe in 144 hours.

Good Lord, you are just asking to be smited.