Posted 7/5/2012 5:49 pm
It means nothing for the average person. The Higgs Boson was proposed as a part of the Standard Model of particle physics. It was the last particle of the model to remain unfound by experiment. Now they're claiming they've found it. Finding it only completes the bestiary for the Standard Model. Change in your life: ZERO.
You're not going to have superluminal travel, or teleportation, or even fusion. All those are impossible. Sadly, people are still letting their governments pour billions into pointless fusion research.
Posted 7/6/2012 4:25 am
You can bet that if the Tevatron had discovered it, the Sepps on here would be crowing about it with "USA #1!" but because it was a european organization that found it, they lose interest.
(1) The consumer paradigm could not be more baked into contempory culture. As if everything is there for your narcissistic benefit.
(2) Like your Iphone? It was made possible by a boatload of quantum mechanics. Including a ton of esoteric discoveries in the 50s and 60s that people had no practical application for then.
If anything, this discovery proves that math rules everything. If it can be mathematically described and mathematically relatable to known axioms, it -fucking- exists and it's only a matter of time before it's proven as a factual discovery. That's the beauty of the standard model, and the beauty of this discovery. Among other gems.
The CERN announcement was incredibly important, and it's sad that scientific illiteracy is so bad in the US that people don't even comprehend a simple reason to be a little bit humble about it. Instead you get lots of
WHO CARES? THIS STUFF IS USELESS TO THE AVERAGE PERSON. WE SHOULD GIVE THAT MONEY BACK TO THE TAXPAYER! CANCEL THE FUNDING FOR THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER. ITS WORTHLESS!
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song, it's going to continue this way. Government is what you fucking make it. If you want a hall monitor government, you get what you get. If you want the government that created the moon landing, social security and federal disaster relief, ASK FOR IT.
The real shame is that the USA wasted trillions on banker bail outs, and stupid pointless wars but didn't have the money or the balls to finish the Superconducting Supercollider
and even then Ive been keeping up with this for years and the media still manages to fuck up the subject and the facts at hand even further.
The findings only support further evidence of the "God" (too hard to explain unified theory to the masses press? ) particle.
A significant find but not definite proof.
What's ironic is that Peter Higgs is an atheist and hates the term "the God particle" primarily for the obvious reason, but also because it inflates the particle's actual importance.
This is why science is always inferior to religion. Jesus slingers are always 100 percent certain no matter how much evidence they have.
Hawkings is looking older and poorer (still better than Ferret); but that was a cheeky smile at the end, he's still going strong.
The STM is based on the concept of quantum tunneling. When a conducting tip is brought very near to the surface to be examined, a bias (voltage difference) applied between the two can allow electrons to tunnel through the vacuum between them. The resulting tunneling current is a function of tip position, applied voltage, and the local density of states (LDOS) of the sample.[4] Information is acquired by monitoring the current as the tip's position scans across the surface, and is usually displayed in image form. STM can be a challenging technique, as it requires extremely clean and stable surfaces, sharp tips, excellent vibration control, and sophisticated electronics.
Posted 7/6/2012 3:16 pm
If we can manipulate the Higgs field, we can eliminate mass locally. In theory, that would mean that we could also manipulate space itself in fundamental ways and, as the universe has already demonstrated, space is not bound by relativity and can expand faster than light. So, in theory, some sort of "warp drive" is possible.
to all of the above, adding only that the discovery of the particle and the validation of the Standard Theory are the final nails in the coffin of religious superstition.
We now know that a Supreme Being isn't necessary to the orderly operation of the universe that in the universe, whatever isn't necessary doesn't exist.
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to all of the above, adding only that the discovery of the particle and the validation of the Standard Theory are the final nails in the coffin of religious superstition.