The search for Higgs Boson

Particle physicists gathered on Wednesday 04 July 2012 in an auditorium where they discussed their findings and conclusively announce that they have a 5 sigma level certainty that they found the theoretical Higgs Boson Particle. Both the Atlas and CMS team exceeded expectations in experimentations a week before where they found the 125.5 Gev particle 40 years after it was predicted. Peter Higgs himself was also represented during the presentation. This is big news for quantum physics although some scientists where lacking much excitement due to the behavior of the Higgs that was pretty much as expected. This is the 1st fundamental particle to be discovered that was theorized.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ience.html

To me this is great news because it will be the last piece of the standard model. It throttles scientist??????s research in specific directions such as supersymmetry within string theory and might end up proving a multidimensional universe or multiverse if you will. (My favorite of all theory??????s). If the standard model is indeed correct the entire universe is static and time is just a change of state of a richly structured multidimensional brane where we literally experience something that just ??????is?????? instead of changes. Entropy will inevitably be the shape of our universe instead of having an actual law of time.

[gouldy]

There were many rumours flying around last week that some major news was afoot, from CERN. The way they announced that there would be an announcement was suspicious. It's usually left to people like interns to announce results, but this time was set to be a much larger affair with the general manager at CERN set to make the announcement, along with VIP physicists and Higgs himself having been invited to the announcement - it was fairly obvious something major was on it's way. It's been an exciting week for those of us interested in physics!

It has been rather annoying since the discovery, though, in terms of the media. I swear, if I hear "god particle" one more time!

[Coasterkidmwm]

Regarding the dumb "god particle" name:

Have you ever met a journalist that wasn't a complete moron? They rarely exist. If you know a journalist, he or she is most likely stupid without exception.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive ... micid=1174

The phrase "global warming" is another accidental phrase that is haunting everyone from the past, which is why they're trying so hard to replace it with "climate change".

Ughhh yeah it's a unprofessional name but I believed it was derived from the book Leon Lederman intended to be named ?????????That Goddamn particle????????? due to its difficulty to find.

I found a good video explaining the basics to anyone not knowing WTF we are talking about off of that PHD comics guys:

http://vimeo.com/41038445

Edit: 2.31 shows a bunch of Question marks for the bosons. Here is the Table:

Is it confirmed that they found it?

[gouldy]

With 5-sigma certainty, yes.

Originally posted on eweek.com

Or, to describe the indescribable, what the Higgs Boson does is create a field of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence, and while they?????????re in existence those virtual particles provide mass to other particles that are able to interact with them.

WAT.

[gouldy]

Originally posted by NoLimitzki

Originally posted by eweek.com


Or, to describe the indescribable, what the Higgs Boson does is create a field of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence, and while they?????????re in existence those virtual particles provide mass to other particles that are able to interact with them.

I know it would be difficult to explain the most complex part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics in a short paragraph, but come on! The over simplification is strong with this one!

So this kind of particle can actually temporarily cease to exist?

How about this. Here's a screenshot of my mind right now.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Clearly jesus did it

THIS IS WAT HAPPINS WEN U MESS WITH THE GOD PARTICEL THE LORD WILL TAKE IT AWAY IF U MESS WITH IT. DONT MESS WITH IT PLAY NICE.

MY god, this could be the biggest scientific discovery of our time. Heh. I had to go into Astrophysics instead of Quantum. >.>

The discovery of the Higgs particle is still hugely important in astrophysics, bandman. But probably more significant in the quantum and theoretical fields.