Originally Posted by adultmobile

The claim that Higgs it is likely to have some practical uses it is bold - we know of Higgs since 40 years and no sci-fi devices yet... now Higgs it was measured with a machine, still no star trek.

Also, there is not a George Clooney way to explain Higgs, since quantum phisics, strings theory and even the standard model it is not intuitive at all, it does all the opposite what you see in your daily life, and simply you need to figure 200 pages of math to really have an idea.

If you google for Higgs you see thousands of videos and articles are being made lately trying to explain it with gossip anologies, it is a nice try but you can't avoid the science formula's to explain something like that. The most hilarious thing it is journalists wants to call it "the particle of God", while Mr. Higgs himself said he's pissed of that, since he's atheist.

About practicla applications of phisics stull I would take an eye more on quantum computers, if done correctly may decrypt all your secret stuff, governments love that:

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/201...-center-98341/

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2012/04/2...ative-habitat/