Higgs boson like particle - Discovery claimed
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- Projectile0
A simple explanation of dark matter
- GeorgesII0
“I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?”
― Guy de Maupassant- there's a theory that space isn't empty... it's filled with plasma and stuffs. and of course i can't back it up when i can't remember where i read that article...pango
- remember where i read that article...pango
- Pango, plasma makes a lot more sense than gluon/muon/dark matter, etc, what you were looking for is http://www.thunderbo…GeorgesII
- http://www.thunderbo…
which is a theory I've delved into which makes so much more senseGeorgesII
- MrT0
Higgs Boson goes to a Catholic church.
The vicar says "You're not welcome here."
Higgs Boson replies, "You can't have mass without me."
- youngdesigner0
People will make fun of religion, but at the end of the day, isn't science just another religion??
- No™albums
- Stupid question of the day.i_monk
- lolscarabin
- It often serves the same purpose. "People want answers", said who?
This man http://www.thehillne…raf - can't tell if trolling or just stupidinteliboy
- at least science can acknowledge mistake. but god requires your unquestionable faith.pango
- Science rely on facts, religions rely on humans imagination.ApeRobot
- People believe in science like they believe in a religion. Yet science changes and evolves.raf
- People who believed in yesterday's overthrown science were just as sure it was "true" as we are now.raf
- Quantum physics suggests the world is stranger than we think... actually, that what we think creates what is.raf
- Religions call that a "prayer". What if physicists prove what they're theorizing, that mind does control matter?raf
- sine0
so for george, and everyone else who also likes to understand things in it's most basic form (including myself)... everything in the universe consists of atoms, made up of smaller particles. up until tuesday, scientists have been able to identify all off the particles that make up everything in the universe, except for the particle that gives everything mass... the higgs boson particle does that... and yesterday, the scientists at cern announced that they have been able to recreate/observe/define this particle with 99% certainty...
(in the last section of miko's explanation he states what this discovery means to scientists)
- uuuuuu0
flying fucking saucers yo
- Gucci0
Umm. Yeah, but what kind of weapons can we build with this thing? Right? Cough... Right?
- ukit20
Science. It works, bitches.
- mikotondria30
All those other little particles are parts of the model that explains how electricity and magnetism arise from their aggregation into atoms, and how energy is transferred between them, giving rise to light, xrays, chemistry, biology, etc. Understanding how these elements go together has allowed us to develop technologies that use their principles, like radios, tv, electronics, lasers, radio telescopes, etc. The Higgs Boson is modelled to be the particle which imparts the property of mass to some of the other particles. Mass attracts all other mass, in an infitesimally weak way we call gravity, and is the final and fourth force we know of - the other three - the strong nuclear, the weak nuclear and the electromagnetic all being accounted for by the standard model of currently known bosons and fermions. Thus once we understand how to model and manipulate the properties of the higgs boson, then we can build technologies that can manipulate mass, hence gravity, and according to relativity, time. Now's the time to just start thinking about what we might be able to engineer matter to do considering the vast implications that something as simple as the 'discovery' of the nature of the electron has had on what we can with stuff we dig out of the ground, and what other exploratory and revelatory tools we have created, from the Hubble Telescope to pacemakers.
- *Picks pieces of exploded brain off groundukit2
- thanks miko :)georgesIII
- I will say that this is what is hoped the higgs boson turns out to be. Gravity might not be explained by it alone/at all.mikotondria3
- But fundamentally it's the dawn of a new era of technology and mastery of another basic natural force.mikotondria3
- This was incredibly uninteresting.CygnusZero4
- hahaha :)mikotondria3
- i gotz goose bumpsPonyBoy
- twokids0
Physicist's have been operating on the assumption that the Higgs Boson was there for decades. This just confirms that everything they are doing can be proved.
The big story, I think, is that the Large Hadron Collider is performing really well, getting results faster than they thought.
Other new things will be learned soon.
- Physicist's what?i_monk
- Physicists' themselve's.mikotondria3
- craigatkinson0
I don't understand why you don't understand how to understand the scientists understanding of the unknown unknowns
- Beeswax0
Atheists should not believe in this because you know, nothing proves that it exists.
United Methodist Higgsianists
- GeorgesII0
this is supposed to be a simple explanation,
still doesn't make any sense and is full of theories and theorems that are only made to fill the hole left out by other theories that were made up to fill the hole made of by other theories that were made up to fill the hole made of by other theories that were made up to fill the hole made of by other theories that were made up to fill the hole made of by other theories that were made up to explain what could be explained by understanding plasma physics- This is very simple to understand, I don't understand why people don't get it.utopian
- Oh wait... Nevermind!
http://youtu.be/IDsn…utopian - care to explain U, I have tons of question and I'm genuinely interested in having response that isn't just a confirmation theory biasGeorgesII
- theory bias.GeorgesII
- Everyone here on qoobs know how intelligent you are I've tons of Question, will you answer them?GeorgesII