EPTHiggs Particle Announcement Incoming!!! - Page 34
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archonOOid
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JinDesu
United States3990 Posts
On July 05 2012 23:23 georgir wrote: Um, sorry but I'm not with you. Do you mean like the virtual particles that supposedly mediate other forces? Those do not exist... Besides, there is no way you'll convince anyone that a particle 130 times heavier than a hydrogen atom, but which you can not easily detect, is responsible for making random easily detectable hydrogen atoms attract each other. Does not compute... Also I am quite certain that in a system which does not have enough energy for the formation of a higgs there still is gravity, and mass still does its thing just fine. How does that work then? Damn, physics has gone nuts these days... It's not easily detected because it decays almost instantaneously. The Higgs Boson does not GIVE matter mass. The Higgs mechanism/field is what defines the mass of matter. When Higgs submitted his paper on the Higgs field/mechanism, it includes a supermassive particle that has never been found before. That particle is the Higgs Boson. | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On July 05 2012 23:48 archonOOid wrote: How does the Higgs field/participles relate to gravitational fields like between large scale astronomical objects such as moons, planets, suns and galaxies? It doesn't. Gravity is something completely different from the quantum world of particle physics. Which is why people are having so much trouble combining the two in one theory. | ||
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Rednaxela_19
United States150 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17238 Posts
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/eureka-cern-announces-discovery-of-higgs-boson-god-particle-7907677.html Also, notice how the Wikipedia page has been updated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Experimental_search Q. Did everyone think it would happen? A. Not everyone. In 2000, Professor Stephen Hawking, below, bet the University of Michigan's Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs would never be found. Yesterday he admitted he would have to pay up. Hahaha. | ||
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/10/10/who-ate-the-higgs/ The discovery is boring in a way, because it just confirms that the model that was used since quite some time works just like expected. | ||
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On July 05 2012 13:26 Cascade wrote: You can't imagine how little there is to do in the CERN area when you are not working.... Hiking. Oh and Eating ^_^ Geneva is damn expensive though  | ||
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gullberg
Sweden1301 Posts
On July 06 2012 03:05 Manit0u wrote: News on the event, with some basic Q&A: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/eureka-cern-announces-discovery-of-higgs-boson-god-particle-7907677.html Also, notice how the Wikipedia page has been updated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Experimental_search Q. Did everyone think it would happen? A. Not everyone. In 2000, Professor Stephen Hawking, below, bet the University of Michigan's Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs would never be found. Yesterday he admitted he would have to pay up. Hahaha. | ||
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Antimatterz
United States1010 Posts
Wow never thought I would see Steven Hawking smile before, that was funny | ||
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Adreme
United States5574 Posts
On July 07 2012 21:41 Maenander wrote: I found a nice blog post that explains why the Higgs was incorporated into the Standard Model of particle physics in the first place: http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/10/10/who-ate-the-higgs/ The discovery is boring in a way, because it just confirms that the model that was used since quite some time works just like expected. Boring is a very good thing. It means that we can finally move another thing from the massive list of things we dont know onto the list of things we do. | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10655 Posts
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