Anyone keeping up with what's going on over at CERN?

AsSiMiLaTeD
AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
edited July 2012 in The Clubhouse
It looks like they found the Higgs...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE86008K20120704
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,770
    edited July 2012
    It's been big news; haven't actually read anything but the headlines yet, though, myself.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2012
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    It looks like they found the Higgs...

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE86008K20120704

    Cool stuff...been reading on this.

    This discovery seems to complete the Standard Model of the Universe - but I think it still poses some 'quarks' with the Super Symmetry Theory :cheesygrin:

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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited July 2012
    "Anyone keeping up with what's going on over at CERN? "

    Not much difference from a Nascar race, Go real fast in a big circle and then crash. :biggrin:
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2012
    Polkersince85 wrote: »
    "Anyone keeping up with what's going on over at CERN? "

    Not much difference from a Nascar race, Go real fast in a big circle and then crash. :biggrin:

    Now that would be a twist....start half the field in the opposite direction....first car to make it all laps is the winner! :eek:

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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited July 2012
    Pics or it didn't happen:cheesygrin:
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited July 2012
    Amazing science coming out of an amazing machine. Still not saying its the Higgs quite yet. '' Particle consistant with the Higgs ''. I think its a shame we cut off funding for the Supercolider we were building in Texas.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited July 2012
    I'm currently more fascinated by someone taking Arafat out with an exotic nuclear material "polonium" !:wink:

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/04/world/meast/switzerland-arafat-polonium/index.html
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited July 2012
    This is probably what will do us in in 2012. :twisted:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited July 2012
    So, what makes up the Higgs boson? We need a bigger particle accelerator. :eek:
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited July 2012
    It will bolster the "M" theory (braim) as well as the multi-verse theorys.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2012
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    It looks like they found the Higgs...

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE86008K20120704

    Thanks! Interesting article! Like mhardy, I'd been seeing headlines and knew they were going to make a definitive announcement once they had spent more time checking and rechecking the experimental results.

    This is pretty exciting stuff, even for a layman! I've always been fascinated by the world of Physics. My first two years in Grad School I shared a suite with a Classics major and several Physicists. It looked a bit like TVs Big Bang Theory. There were two Physicists from Taiwan who had come to study with Li Zhengdao (among others). One was an experimental physicist, the other a Theoretical--they argued ALL the time! There was also a guy who was into solid state physics and was one of the top 10 mountain climbers in the U.S. at the time. Pretty much Nerdvana for a Social Scientist! lol

    It was always interesting to try and understand whatever I could, and that's not to say there weren't times when I was clueless but the boys were pretty good at explaining things. Oh, another experimentalist in my section was actually named .'Leonard'.

    Take care guys, and enjoy the 4th!

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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2012
    I'll just wait for next season's Big Bang Theory to come out for all the info I need to know concerning this.
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