Science Higgs Boson found?

[blane]

Possibly next tuesday we will know more. CERN has invited to a seminar on the 12th december. Rumors are that the Higgs Boson may have been found at around 125 GeV:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/dec/06/is-higgs-boson-real

 

[jedidia]

It was probably left over by a neutrino that splattered on the tunnel walls after oversteering in the turn at 1.00001 C... :lol:

 

[n72.75]

And we're all still alive ... someone owes me $50.

 

[blane]

Well, to be fair, even if the rumors are true, "the evidence is not robust enough to claim an official discovery."

 

[Scruce]

More on this:

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...e-first-glimpse-of-Higgs-boson-next-week.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2071507/Higgs-boson-particle-close-says-CERN.html

 

[bujin]

Where did they find it? Had it dropped down behind the cooker? I'm always losing stuff there.

 

[Jarvitä]

And we're all still alive ... someone owes me $50.

Ha, I wish I could collect all the internet bets I've made on LHC not destroying the Earth. Technically, I've already won them all when they did the first 7 TeV collision.

 

[Cras]

Well this is certainly good news. While not near confirmation of the Higgs Boson, they do appear to be in the ballpark with this, and hopefully in a few years we can get confirmation. That would be a huge deal.

Now we need to get some progress on supersymmetry.

 

[mojoey]

Now we need to get some progress on supersymmetry.

or lightsabers....


This is really good, even if its not official news yet...might be the best tuesday in a while!

 

[Cras]

or lightsabers....


This is really good, even if its not official news yet...might be the best tuesday in a while!

Ill take lightsabers. Even if they are just holographic.

 

[mojoey]

teleportation...think about it

i cant really see why the hype is being created. Its about the same as when we found Pluto (look how THAT turned out)

 

[Cras]

teleportation I can assure is not something you ever want to be subjected to.

Think of the movie "The Prestiege" That is what will be required. In other words, bad.

 

[Ark]

teleportation I can assure is not something you ever want to be subjected to.

Think of the movie "The Prestiege" That is what will be required. In other words, bad.

Yeah, unless they're taking the actual atoms that make up my body and physically transporting them, count me out. I'm not up for having my ass vaporized and a copy assembled out of a pile of matter somewhere else.

 

[mojoey]

I share the same sentiment!

 

[Ark]

It's the scariest part of Star Trek, every time you step into the transporter you're committing suicide in the hopes that your copy will complete the mission.

But at least that beats reappearing with your head on backwards...

 

[RisingFury]

We went from Higgs boson to Star Trek in 1 page. That has to be a new record...

 

[Cras]

Actually, we went from Higgs to Spaceballs in 1 page. And I bet nothing will top that.

 

[mojoey]

:facepalm: when did we hit spaceballs? ohhhhh.... head on backwards... gotcha!





Edit: :ninja: ed by cras... sneaky....

 

[Keatah]

There is an episode of Star Trek where (off-screen, in the past) Starfleet and some scientist did some experiments on a super long-range transporter device. The inventor's son had gone through and ended up in some remote barren section of space with no stars, like a void. And not fully materialized back either. Pretty spooky stuff.

This is not like the few episodes where some crewmembers came out of the transporter phased the wrong way, and invisible. Those were fun episodes because they could walk through walls and spy without being seen.

The episode I'm talking about downright spooky because it happens in far away space and involves wandering essences.

 

[RisingFury]

I don't know which is it - sad or funny - that that people take science and technology ideas from movies and TV series and at the same time dare complain about Armageddon physics...