World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Detected 'God Particle' (the Higgs boson)

[PICK3]

Www.godparticle.com

wtf???

 

[miplank]

Lol

 

[PICK3]

Lol

ololobant!lolol!

 

[Mr. dB]

God Particle Discovered

Looks more like the Vegas Particle to me.

 

[mrplunkey]

Has pick3 usurped control as our EF Physics Correspondent????

 

[PICK3]

Has pick3 usurped control as our EF Physics Correspondent????

Irregardless of which area you head up, Mitch still runs this bish




just sayin'

 

[samoth]

Has pick3 usurped control as our EF Physics Correspondent????

This is the same news as came out of CMS/ATLAS three months ago. It's only supercoolexicitingOMGOMGOMG news to HEP doods, not to the layperson, or, arguable, the bulk of the scientific community at this time.

This is something that will take 6-12 months for verification of importance, but nothing was discovered. This is only news because of statistical significance of data. Unless you have an opinion on the standard model (i.e., the current periodic table of "things smaller than the elements"), it's meaningless to you.

Pretty good article here: symmetry breaking Blog Archive How to find the Higgs particle; first Higgs search results from LHC and Tevatron

The standard model (of SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)) in layperson speak: Standard Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Note that this is the *basics*.

The CERN/LHC/Higgs in dumbperson speak:


HEP is just not really translatable to modern english without a shitload of a priori knowledge. We're doing some really advanced shit in physics, but unfortunetly, most of it is not accessable to 99% of people. Antimatter, shooting shit at the speed of light, doing miles of work at < 270 degrees to create temperatures around 5 trillion degrees (temp needed to achieve symmetry breaking), etc.

A good primer on CERN if anyone's interested: Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Entering a new era in Particle Physics

 

[PICK3]

This is the same news as came out of CMS/ATLAS three months ago.

butt I was the first to announce it to the C&C community






just sayin'

 

[Sub-Zero]

cliffs?

 

[mrplunkey]

cliffs?

We're getting our physics scoops from pick3 now.

So now he's the official EF power bottom AND physics nerdvig.