Potentially the biggest discovery of this century!!!

[sperbonzo]

Higgs-Boson particle DOES exist!!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstj...-what-it-does/

By Ainissa Ramirez, Yale University

In my guest post yesterday, I explained why you should care about the Higgs boson. I said it’s important because …

1) It is the most important scientific discovery of the 21st Century, and on par with Copernicus’s discovery that the sun is the center of our solar system.

2) It’s likely to have some practical uses that we can’t fathom right now, in much the same way as the discovery of the electron enabled every electronic device you use today.

3) We were right. Scientists theorized that a particle like the Higgs boson has to exist. They built a remarkable machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to find it. And they found it. Which not only allows us to feel good about ourselves as humans, it allows scientists to continue using a model of the universe that they’ve been working on for more almost 50 years. In short, scientists don’t have to start from scratch. And, this model and the LHC will allow us to explore even more nebulous ideas, such as dark matter.

But a lot of you wanted to hear more about the Higgs boson itself. Here, in less than 500 words, is what you need to know about the Higgs boson, with a nod to George Clooney.

In its simplest terms, at the moment the universe was created, the Higgs boson allowed the universe to go from a collection of massless particles to elementary particles that had mass. Or to simplify further, things went from nothing to something.

Here’s what we know about how that happened.

Over 13.7 billion years ago, there was a Big Bang.

Before the Big Bang, all matter was in an incredibly hot, dense state, squeezed into something the size of an atom. How small is an atom? Imagine whittling a strand of human hair 100,000 times. One of those shavings would be the width of an atom.

Just after the Big Bang—less than a billionth of a second afterwards–the universe began to expand exponentially. Particles had no mass and moved through space at the speed of light.

Probably the most important and puzzling thing that happened is that the universe went from being a collection of particles without mass, to a place where some particles did have mass.

As the universe continued to expand in those first billionths of a second, elementary particles such as quarks, electrons, and gluons started to emerge, which did have mass. These particles are some of the building blocks of our universe.

But wait. How did we go from nothing to something? Specifically, how did we go from particles with no mass to particles that have mass? Higgs bosons.

Higgs bosons help elementary particles gain mass.

So how do they do that?

Enter this cute analogy.

Imagine a Hollywood party. It’s filled with agents and studio executives. Andrew Dice Clay (or in the physics part of the analogy, an elementary particle without mass) could walk from the bar at one end of the room to the buffet at the other end very quickly with no interaction with anyone. (If Dice Clay were a particle, he could move through the room at the speed of light because then he would have no mass.)

However, let’s say George Clooney (who is a different kind of massless elementary particle) enters the room. Immediately, the people in the room swarm him, handing him business cards and pitching him projects. It’s hard for him to move from one side of the room to the other quickly. The agents and producers in the room (who are acting like Higgs particles) slow him down. But while George Clooney is collecting business cards and party invitations, the elementary particle in our analogy, just few fractions of a second after the Big Bang, is gaining mass because of its interactions with the Higgs bosons.

Give or take a celebrity or two, this was the best theory for how particles gained mass, how we went from nothing to something. Inserting a Higgs boson in the equation made all the math work out.

But, it was also totally theoretical. A Higgs-like particle had never actually been seen. Until now.





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[Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE]

That's not a vagina!

[Harmon]

And you see kids, that's how I met your mother.

[seeandsee]

And god knows what else there is in the space dark...

[bronco67]

Pre big bang, if all matter was squeezed into the size of an atom, what was in the space around the atom? I can't wrap my brain around that concept.

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by bronco67

Pre big bang, if all matter was squeezed into the size of an atom, what was in the space around the atom? I can't wrap my brain around that concept.

think of it as a fire cracker..

[DarkJedi]

welcome to last week, dumbass

[ilnjscb]

That's a silly celebrity analogy. While the Higgs boson may be somewhat confirmed, it is still confirmed by extrapolation. That lends itself to the Blind Men and the Elephant type theories.

It has also been extrapolated that there are numerous dimensions and other universes.

Copernicus devised a new system based on classical knowledge, this postulated particle is a newly confirmed part of a system that currently is widely accepted.

[CPA37710T]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi

welcome to last week, dumbass

that was mean.... lol but i kinda laugh a little im sorry

[MrCain]

[adultmobile]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Higgs-Boson particle DOES exist!!

2) It?s likely to have some practical uses that we can?t fathom right now, in much the same way as the discovery of the electron enabled every electronic device you use today.

... However, let?s say George Clooney (who is a different kind of massless elementary particle) enters the room.
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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/

[Scott McD]

Where is Fatfoo when you need him ??

[DWB]

Originally Posted by bronco67

Pre big bang, if all matter was squeezed into the size of an atom, what was in the space around the atom? I can't wrap my brain around that concept.

Yea, that's a mind fuck. Something as small as an atom created our entire universe.

That really just tells you how much we have no fucking clue about what is going on out there. It's very possible that one single atom that created our entire universe (as we know it) is just one of billions of other atoms inside a worm, living inside a dog's ass.

That is the sort of thing that can make your brain turn inside out if you think about it too much.

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by DWB

Yea, that's a mind fuck. Something as small as an atom created our entire universe.

That really just tells you how much we have no fucking clue about what is going on out there.

We do have a clue. This "discovery" is merely proving something that was theorized to exist 1/2 a century ago. ;)

[Due]

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/

In other words let a naked stripper enter a webmaster party.
Then split the mass by having an open bar in the opposite end of the party.