The LHC Might Have Actually Found What it's Been Looking For

[Tulks]

What does the Higgs Boson particle do again? Or should I just shut up and let science do its thing?

It can do the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs.

 

[Raeil]

What does the Higgs Boson particle do again? Or should I just shut up and let science do its thing?

The idea is that this is the particle that gives objects mass. Discovering it would answer several questions left by the Standard Model, which is currently the most scienetifically explored and correct model of elementary particles. If it turns out not to exist where it is supposed to, our model is likely incorrect, and science will start working on other ideas (and it already has, if my stumbling is any indication).

 

[TemplateResponse]

Portal gun or gtfo

 

[BehattedWanderer]

So now there might be something else with the Higgs? And holy cow, 115GeV...wow that's a shit ton of energy. Right about where you'd expect energy to create mass, though, so that's good. Man I can't wait for this news in an official warning.

 

[teh_Canape]

Whatever it turns out to be, This discovery is still a Victory
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I think Captcha is up to something!

so, the Internet is gonna visit the LHC?

that can't be good

that can't be good at all

 

[Frontastic]

Not one Portal 2 "For science" joke. You're losing your touch internet.
Though the above HL photographic evidence of impending doom for us all, makes up for it.

Pssht, if Glados were in charge here, she would have found the Boson, bent it to her will, and used it to somehow improve her shower curtains.

This ain't Aperture Science. This is just regular old science.

The LHC seems like more of a Cave Johnson-era endeavor. Think of all those poor, homeless people he fed to it...

 

[Callex]

And holy cow, 115GeV...wow that's a shit ton of energy.

115GeV. That comes to about... 0.000000018 Joules? So, a teaspoon of sugar has the energy equivalent of about 3.5 trillion Large Hadron Colliders! Yup, whole lotta energy. Good thing they don't stick lucozade in this machine, it'd go off like a million billion nukes!

[small](Kidding of course, I'm applying particle energies to whole objects; for a single particle collision that is indeed a shit tonne of energy!)[/small]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

It'll pay off in the end! The study of particles like this is what led to touchscreens, GPS, world wide web etc. It starts with intrigue but people quickly find uses for the discoveries made by such experiments.

 

[DoctorPhil]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

And holy cow, 115GeV...wow that's a shit ton of energy.

115GeV. That comes to about... 0.000000018 Joules? So, a teaspoon of sugar has the energy equivalent of about 3.5 trillion Large Hadron Colliders! Yup, whole lotta energy. Good thing they don't stick lucozade in this machine, it'd go off like a million billion nukes!

[small](Kidding of course, I'm applying particle energies to whole objects; for a single particle collision that is indeed a shit tonne of energy!)[/small]

Glad you're kidding, I was about to get my panties in a twist pointing out the differences between them, and their uses.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Damn, Hawking is gonna be pissed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4715761.ece

I'm sure the chance of a resonance cascade is minimal though. Hardly worth talking about.

 

[Snake Plissken]

The LHC is now better then U2, as demonstrated by Science.

Everything is better than U2, as demonstrated by good taste.

 

[DivineBeastLink]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

To be fair, the advancement of science tends to lead to better ways to help people. Any investment in science is a good one.

And to be honest, $5.5 billion for a science experiment isn't all that much when compared to the other kinds of spending in, say, the US.

 

[thisbymaster]

Stop with the rumors and only tell us when you really figured it out. Because I have a rumor that I have created the first faster then light engine.

 

[Hinro]

Stop with the rumors and only tell us when you really figured it out. Because I have a rumor that I have created the first faster then light engine.

The only problem is that it's moving too fast for me to show you it.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

What does the Higgs Boson particle do again? Or should I just shut up and let science do its thing?

It says it in the article, it grants particles their mass (different than weight).

OT: Next step, Gravaton.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

The Escapist really does love stories about the collider, this is the only website I see news pieces about this damn thing!

The Escapist
We Do Science In Here

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

If anything, there should be MORE spending in science. $5.5B is nothing over 17 years when you're searching for theoretical particles. They were spending that much a month in Iraq a few years ago.

 

[Slaanax]

The LHC looks like some weird over elaborate death machine in a bad sci-fi movie in that photo.

 

[2ndblackjedi]

Big science things are going down is my new catchphrase

The LHC is now better then U2, as demonstrated by Science.

Lmao, that was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the title.