Use The Force Luke: "God Particle" On The Verge Of Being Discovered
 

A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he expects to see "the first glimpse" of the Higgs boson next week. Would be very exciting if true. [yes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16074411

Awesome. Exciting.. and frightening all at the same time. I have it on good authority that we will be able to teleport frogs in the same way we can teleport the properties of an atom - within 5 years.

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Heheheh.

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Thought more people would be interested in this http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/laugh1.gif

This.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the over speeding neutrons?

Frogs? Meh - it was the cat that had the problem...

Cat? What cat?

The cat(s) that didn't make it through the movie(s) - they were minor classics. Anyone hazard a guess?

Hint, there was also a problem with a fly...

I think they are being over confident. I don't think they'll find what they expect, the recent discovery of neutrinos that travel faster than light, shows how suddenly and unexpectedly everything we think we know or expect can be turned on it's head.

I thought they already confirmed that the neutrinos didn't travel faster than light because they arrived with the same energy that they left with meaning their calculations are wrong, if they had gone faster than light then they would have been emitting radiation at the destination but none was found.

Edit: http://www.livescience.com/17154-ana...t-results.html

I don't believe that's a conclusive study. They say if a particle breaks the sol that they believe it should emit a certain type of radiation, except they have nothing to actually back that up, that's just another theory, which is probably wrong. Imo, they are just another group of scientists who cannot accept such a massive shake up to their world, so they figure something must be wrong somewhere, even though they can't actually prove it. Mind you, it would be difficult to accept that a huge portion of what you've believed and learnt over your life as a physicist, is actually wrong. [rofl]

Iceman,

Did you rock back and forth to get that **** out? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/tongue1.gif

How would you have a better idea of the outcome of this bleeding edge, quantum experiment then the people that do this for a living? Seriously, man... there is a team of people, knees deep in this **** for years.

What makes you think that you can out-hypothesize them, with man-centuries less experience and eduction from the comfort of your arm chair a few hundred km away from any previous experiments?

Your comment reads like it was from Youtube.

It is fantastic to have an opinion, but leave the postulation to those with even a fraction of merit on the subject matter.

Cheers!

What Will said, but a bit less harshly.
The scientists are extremely motivated to ge result and hopefully overturn, or modify, current theories - think Nobel Peace Prize for Physics, think about being as well known as Bohr, Rutherford, Hubble, etc.
Then there's the funding, foundations and the like, the lecture and publishing revenues...

Nah, I just thought, "What would Will say?" http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/biggrin1.gif

Well firstly, it was a different team of scientists (The Icarus Team) who think the other (The Opera Group) got something wrong. The original team who actually performed the experiments, still insist their results are valid and correct. So what i'm actually doing is agreeing with the Opera Group and in no way claiming i know better than The Icarus Team, I'm saying the guys who actually performed the experiments know better. Learn to read things in context before criticising, little Willy. And finally, http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/tongue1.gif

How about you source that material instead of saying, "I don't believe..."?

You really mean, "I agree with..." since it was not an original idea.

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/waits for the first Higgs bomb

You know why they call it the God particle? Because it doesn't really exist.

What would it do, turn everything to dust?