[Lord-Voldemort]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...=feeds-newsxml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...w-results.html


Thoughts?

Can any TSR scientists tell us what this actually means for humanity/the world?

[Bill_Gates]

Futurama!

[OSharp]

Actually, no one has said they have found the higgs boson, just that they might have.

The reason there so keen to find it is because it is the only particle that hasn't been discovered which supports one of the main theories that modern physics is based on.

It clearly states, they will make an announcement, doesn't say about what.

[chickenonsteroids]

They haven't found it yet. It's not official.

Scientists from Cern will announce on Wednesday whether the tantalising "hints" of the Higgs Boson which they presented in December have been strengthened or grown weaker over the past six months.

Although the results may not be strong enough to declare an official discovery, they are rumoured to show very similar signals to those announced last year which back up the previous findings.

...

Cern has urged the public not to believe the rumours, insisting that its physicists are still poring over months' worth of data and the full picture will not be clear even to them until early next week.

[Lord-Voldemort]

(Original post by chickenonsteroids)
They haven't found it yet. It's not official.

Thread title changed!

[TurboCretin]

"Cern has urged the public not to believe the rumours, insisting that its physicists are still poring over months' worth of data and the full picture will not be clear even to them until early next week."

[acedlol]

HERE WE GO

[Darkphilosopher]

One of the comments on the dm: "Thank God for that! Perhaps now atheists will shut up."
I really cannot comprehend such idiocy.

[Pinkhead]

Some of the comments on the DM article just make me want to smash my head on the table.

[OG-Ashley]

they haven't found it nor will they ever find it because it doesn't exist.

[Pinkhead]

(Original post by OG-Ashley)
they haven't found it nor will they ever find it because it doesn't exist.

How are you so certain?

[Picture~Perfect]

(Original post by OG-Ashley)
they haven't found it nor will they ever find it because it doesn't exist.

You can't know that it doesn't exist, you have no proof and there is no certain way to say for sure. It may exist and if it does, CERN will find it.

[OG-Ashley]

God told me

[DJMayes]

(Original post by Lord-Voldemort)
Thoughts?

Can any TSR scientists tell us what this actually means for humanity/the world?

The importance of the Higgs Boson is that its discovery would validate the standard model of Physics.

However, don't be expecting the potential discovery of the particle to suddenly change the face of the world into something out of science fiction. The discovery would undoubtedly have practical applications of some kind but I doubt anyone of us understand it enough to make any kind of prediction as to what these applications might be.

[vedderfan94]

(Original post by OG-Ashley)
God told me

Hundreds of years of scientific research and proven theories which all converge

or

An imaginary man sat on a cloud

I know which I'd rather trust

[RyanT]

Does it even matter if it's found?

It's not a theoretical break through, just a confirmation of something we already suspect. That isn't going to lead to large technological development, because we already have the working theories and have those related techs.

If anything I would prefer it not to be found and the answer to be some other model of physics, the discovery of which may offer us even more technologies.

Obsession over the particle is just journalistic mutual masturbation.

[SaintSoldier]

(Original post by OG-Ashley)
God told me

[cyfer]

Don't post links to dailymail. New Scientist made a great article on this and exactly how likely the Higgs' discovery may be from recent data.

It doesn't destroy any of Erik Verlinde's work though so I'm fine

[Pinkhead]

(Original post by OG-Ashley)
God told me

[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]

(Original post by RyanT)
Does it even matter if it's found?

It's not a theoretical break through, just a confirmation of something we already suspect. That isn't going to lead to large technological development, because we already have the working theories and have those related techs.

If anything I would prefer it not to be found and the answer to be some other model of physics, the discovery of which may offer us even more technologies.

Obsession over the particle is just journalistic mutual masturbation.

i guess it means they can experiment with it? not a physicist myself but if someone predicted dinosaurs and we found dinosaurs, it would open doors for more breakthroughs as we can examine what we've found. The fact that we confirmed dinosaurs exist change nothing but what we can find out with them is another thing