The LHC Might Have Actually Found What it's Been Looking For
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well, yeah but. . . all that clicking.Tulks said:If only there were some way to look back at previous posts...captaincabbage said:. . . I forgot what I said.
Wait, there is a way! The way I just said!
Eww while i was reading this not only i did not understand anything but the whole time i was thinking of the Big Bang theory X_X
So okay if they prove this Higgs boson thing...what happens then? how does that improve our lives?
So okay if they prove this Higgs boson thing...what happens then? how does that improve our lives?
Well, accidents in science have resulted in good happenings - look at penicillin!Scott Bullock said:
Finding the Higgs Boson is different, how does it help poor people? It's only progress in the field of physics, in no way does it help people who are actually suffering. It helps us get better at travelling through space by understanding the universe better. Is that really a priority though? We should use the money to fix a few things on our own planet first. Think of all the children that could have been educated with that money. Instead, those children grew up to be poor farmers or lousy criminals.McMullen said:
What's done is done though, since they already built the thing, they should go on with it.
I'm just waiting for some random troll to start pumping the "But what if we blow up the earth"-steamvalve.
Cmon, where are ya?
Cmon, where are ya?
And I'm enforcing a new rule, by the way. You may no longer refer to "Accidents in science, a cause for good!" and then only naming pencillin. Because every time someone mentions Accidents in Science, it's Alexander Flemming this and Alexander Flemming that. One accident is a stroke of luck, two is a rule!Cobaltmotari said:
You're right. Finding the Higgs Boson would not help people who are suffering. You're right, also, in wondering what the $5.5b could have done over 17 years if it was spent on helping developing nations. However, you'd be more right to consider what $5.5b over a single year could do.DoctorPhil said:
Now consider this, the US military spends ~$500b a year. Don't get me wrong, I love that my nation is actively invested in protecting its citizens, but this is an extremely large amount. If I had a choice, I'd much rather remove $5.5b from my nation's military for the purpose of helping developing nations than not pursue science.
Sorry about that, I just get kinda annoyed when people get upset that relatively small amounts of money are being spent on worthwhile causes. The LHC is providing results, which is really what matters. Thankfully, it looks like those results will confirm what the scientific community has thought!
Higgs Boson: Proof that Quantum Physics can be defined by rules. So the unmeasurable science can now be measured.EllEzDee said:
LHC: Racetrack that throws basic building blocks of everything at each other to look for the boson after the car crash.
They've found something...No-one knows if it's the Boson yet, but it's an unexpected something.
Isn't this all pretty silly.
I think they just want more funding or something because wouldn't a 0-spin be the first thing they would announce if they found it. The Higgs boson is theoretically only detectable with a net spin of 0, which would be stupidly rare even if it exists. So rare I'm not sure if they'd ever be able to tell the difference between testing error and empirical evidence.
I already think the Higgs mechanism is wild mass guessing and just doesn't seem right in the standard model
I think they just want more funding or something because wouldn't a 0-spin be the first thing they would announce if they found it. The Higgs boson is theoretically only detectable with a net spin of 0, which would be stupidly rare even if it exists. So rare I'm not sure if they'd ever be able to tell the difference between testing error and empirical evidence.
I already think the Higgs mechanism is wild mass guessing and just doesn't seem right in the standard model
William Gladstone asked the same question of Michael Faraday when he exhibited his discovery of electromagnetic induction and he had a very simple answer, "Mr. Gladstone, in twenty years you will be taxing it."Azmael Silverlance said:
It took longer than twenty years, but the majority of the electricity that the world generates is based on Faraday's discoveries.
Identifying the Higgs Boson particle would confirm a theory of how our universe works, once we identify it we can then try to find some way of harnessing it, just like we found a way to harness electric currents and nuclear fission.
