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On July 04 2012 17:03 TBO wrote:
so I guess I can use Comic Sans in all my papers/presentations now and refer to a billion dollar funded project using it for their discoveries. Hard to refute it's viability as academic viable font now.
Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox
It's entirely appropriate to present in Comic Sans @VincentConnare !
1 minute ago. Hey, he allows it.
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On July 04 2012 17:03 TBO wrote:
so I guess I can use Comic Sans in all my papers/presentations now and refer to a billion dollar funded project using it for their discoveries. Hard to refute it's viability as academic viable font now.
Maybe she's meta-trolling the scientific community.
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On July 04 2012 17:01 kingjames01 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2012 16:57 georgir wrote:
I don't get it. Gives other particles their mass? That doesn't even make sense, much like saying it gives other particles their energy or velocity. Why can this particle have its own mass but others can't? What gives the higgs boson its mass then? Is it turtles all the way down? No, no. Think of it this way. You possess a characteristic called 'mass'. However, does that mean you'll be able to 'feel' other particles with 'mass'? How do you know that they are there? Even if you know they are there, what difference does your 'mass' make? The Higgs boson is the particle that tells your 'mass' what to do. It makes it so that objects with 'mass' are attracted to each other.
The whole thing only has meaning mathematically. You can't put it in words like this. You can put it in words that sound similar and that make sense, but the end it's just math.
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haha, I actually love using Comic Sans... not for presentations but I used to use it for ICQ. Does anyone still remember ICQ?
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I'll give this 5/5 sigmas.
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On July 04 2012 17:04 Klunssila wrote:
I'll give this 5/5 sigmas.
That's only one sigma!
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Does anyone know what is meant by 'channels'? Is it just different processes/Feynman diagrams?
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Witnessing a historical moment live, long live the internet! =) Thanks for that too, CERN.^^
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On July 04 2012 17:03 TBO wrote:
so I guess I can use Comic Sans in all my papers/presentations now and refer to a billion dollar funded project using it for their discoveries. Hard to refute it's viability as academic viable font now.
Still more respectable than Science requiring Word format.
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On July 04 2012 17:03 acker wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2012 17:03 TBO wrote:
so I guess I can use Comic Sans in all my papers/presentations now and refer to a billion dollar funded project using it for their discoveries. Hard to refute it's viability as academic viable font now. Maybe she's meta-trolling the scientific community.
No, she's actually just incredibly stubborn. People in the collaboration have tried to get her to make her presentations look more presentable, but she just ignores that 
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On July 04 2012 17:05 Bahamuth wrote:
Does anyone know what is meant by 'channels'? Is it just different processes/Feynman diagrams?
A channel is a process in which a Higgs boson decays. Since the detector picks up the decay products rather than the actual particle, it's important to look at all possible decay channels.
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Someone should print out that presentation and slap her around with that ugly shit...holy moly
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On July 04 2012 17:05 Bahamuth wrote:
Does anyone know what is meant by 'channels'? Is it just different processes/Feynman diagrams?
Channels are the path through which the Higgs decays, Feynman diagrams would be useful for showing this.
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I'm sorry, but I mean I took physics in highschool, but I don't understand a thing theyre saying. Did they discover it or not lol?
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Whoa, nice job on the 5 sigma. I''m going to jump on this physics-bandwagon and claim Higgs-boson confirmed 
So now we have confirmed the model, I have 2 questions:
1) Anyone have an idea what's next? A collider the size of the planet to confirm even more elimentary particles?
2) When can I expect my gravity gun?
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On July 04 2012 17:03 r.Evo wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2012 17:01 kingjames01 wrote:On July 04 2012 16:57 georgir wrote:
I don't get it. Gives other particles their mass? That doesn't even make sense, much like saying it gives other particles their energy or velocity. Why can this particle have its own mass but others can't? What gives the higgs boson its mass then? Is it turtles all the way down? No, no. Think of it this way. You possess a characteristic called 'mass'. However, does that mean you'll be able to 'feel' other particles with 'mass'? How do you know that they are there? Even if you know they are there, what difference does your 'mass' make? The Higgs boson is the particle that tells your 'mass' what to do. It makes it so that objects with 'mass' are attracted to each other. ...and when you bang e.g. two photons against each other often enough you are able to read where 'mass' is written down on their charactersheet? (I'm being serious here, this shit is hard for non-physics. =P) Edit: Or rather, the entire book which is written down on them is smacked against the wall and you try to decypher what you know from what you don't know and the only part you didn't know is called 'mass' and that's how you find out what it is?
Well, imagine that there was a box that you can throw money into. If you throw in $10 dollars, then when you look inside, you'll find items that can only total $10.
The Higgs particle costs $12.5 +/- 0.6 billion dollars. So in order to find it you had to throw in at least $12.5 +/- 0.6 billion dollars. The problem is that you can't actually see the Higgs particle. After it's been made, it falls apart. However, you can see what's left over and add up what you find. The CMS was sensitive to 5 channels. If the Higgs boson wasn't there, they'd see one thing. If it was, they'd see something else.
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On July 04 2012 17:06 Rannasha wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2012 17:03 acker wrote:On July 04 2012 17:03 TBO wrote:
so I guess I can use Comic Sans in all my papers/presentations now and refer to a billion dollar funded project using it for their discoveries. Hard to refute it's viability as academic viable font now. Maybe she's meta-trolling the scientific community. No, she's actually just incredibly stubborn. People in the collaboration have tried to get her to make her presentations look more presentable, but she just ignores that
I think its more that she went through school before powerpoint presentations, and younger collegues are unlikely to criticize it too much.
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"Now, it looks simple..."
T_T
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On July 04 2012 17:10 kingjames01 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2012 17:03 r.Evo wrote:On July 04 2012 17:01 kingjames01 wrote:On July 04 2012 16:57 georgir wrote:
I don't get it. Gives other particles their mass? That doesn't even make sense, much like saying it gives other particles their energy or velocity. Why can this particle have its own mass but others can't? What gives the higgs boson its mass then? Is it turtles all the way down? No, no. Think of it this way. You possess a characteristic called 'mass'. However, does that mean you'll be able to 'feel' other particles with 'mass'? How do you know that they are there? Even if you know they are there, what difference does your 'mass' make? The Higgs boson is the particle that tells your 'mass' what to do. It makes it so that objects with 'mass' are attracted to each other. ...and when you bang e.g. two photons against each other often enough you are able to read where 'mass' is written down on their charactersheet? (I'm being serious here, this shit is hard for non-physics. =P) Edit: Or rather, the entire book which is written down on them is smacked against the wall and you try to decypher what you know from what you don't know and the only part you didn't know is called 'mass' and that's how you find out what it is? Well, imagine that there was a box that you can throw money into. If you throw in $10 dollars, then when you look inside, you'll find items that can only total $10. The Higgs particle costs $12.5 +/- 0.6 billion dollars. So in order to find it you had to throw in at least $12.5 +/- 0.6 billion dollars. The problem is that you can't actually see the Higgs particle. After it's been made, it falls apart. However, you can see what's left over and add up what you find. The CMS was sensitive to 5 channels. If the Higgs boson wasn't there, they'd see one thing. If it was, they'd see something else.
Gotcha, thanks. <3
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