Higgs boson like particle - Discovery claimed
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- PonyBoy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-…
^ Live webcast of the scientists speaking on the discovery at the moment (12:55am Pacific time, US)
this is huge... HUGE! :)
- d0mino0
I believe the term is 'That shit cray.'
- prophetone0
- you left out the butter...ESKEMA
- ESKEMA is putting the scientific method into practice!biusness
- Would be cool if toast fell butter down. But it doesnt, so this isnt funny.CygnusZero4
- prophetone0
this is truly an amazing discovery, there's no two ways about that one. big day for science.
- prophetone0
one of the scientists on the webcast just said this opens up future opportunities to discover "unknown unkowns"...
- prophetone0
Professor John Womersley, chief executive of the Science and technology Facilities Council, told reporters at a briefing in London: "They have discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. Hoverboards coming soon."
- craigatkinson0
Gamma gamma is low.
It's off.
- PonyBoy0
press conference is over... but damn if that wasn't fascinating... I absolutely LOVE science and physics? :)
... so cool
- - ?PonyBoy
- i watched most of it - they were quite funny and there was good energy in the room...prophetone
- detritus0
Nothing to see here, move along.
Move along.
- centro0
Shatners Bassoon
- +1Morning_star
- HAHAHAWolfboy
- Isn't that found in the field known as Joss Ackerlund's Spunky Backpack?Wolfboy
- Fucking cake.mikotondria3
- twooh0
We must figure out how to make flying cars now from this discovery.
- Totally serious. I want that shits before I die....twooh
- you really want another dimension added to the mix when many people can't handle 2D when driving?Amicus
- you drive in 2D? dude, you should stay off the road if you only see two dimensional. fucking lunatic!lvl_13
- I didn't say to make flying cars for anyone else. Just me...twooh
- sine0
they should call it the boss particle
- i_monk0
The Higgs boson is often referred to as the "God particle" by the media, after the title of Leon Lederman's popular science book on particle physics, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? While use of this term may have contributed to increased media interest, many scientists dislike it, since it overstates the particle's importance, not least since its discovery would still leave unanswered questions about the unification of quantum chromodynamics, the electroweak interaction, and gravity, as well as the ultimate origin of the universe. Higgs is an atheist, and is displeased that the Higgs particle is nicknamed the "God particle", because the term "might offend people who are religious".
- Oh no, that would be terrible considering their exemplary record in behaving nicely and only saying nice things. Pussy.mikotondria3
- biusness0
Enough figureheads in the scientific community are getting genuinely moist over that I'm impressed.
Even Coxxy called it 'the most important discovery' of his lifetime (behind the Lolcube).
Do I understand enough to get me through a conversation? Fuck no. Am I still excited by what could follow? Yes
- _niko0
It's pretty fucking phenomenal what we've been able to discover and create in out extremely brief existence.
I can't even begin to fathom where we'll be in the next 2000 years (if we make it)
- CygnusZero40
Im having a very hard time caring about this.
- you're slow. it's expected. it will be all the rage in your head in the next decade. ALL THE RAGE!lvl_13
- inv0
With all the comic sans and not even one suggestion on what to actually use this discovery for.....i think the CERN people need a PR-team.
- did you even watch the media event? they said "...thanks to this discovery, next step, time travel..."prophetone
- maybe some things don't need PR and a living brand to be interesting...MrT
