CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc

 

In all honesty I haven't got the foggyest idea in hell what it means but it sounds great. Is this the suspected faster than the speed of light particle? I've followed it some and know that certain groups of people are scared shitless about the LCH. This is the kind of stuff that should be explained and detailed in the media as opposed to celebrity crap.

 

Either that or they watched Tim Tebow pull off his latest Mile High miracle against the Chicago Bears

Da Bears


Hotwater

 

I think that the Higgs Boson is supposed to be responsible for giving stuff mass

 

Yeah, You're right. I did read that somewhere else. Cool Stuff worthwhile news to read about. Not that its something that affects my daily life, just cool to hear what science is doing and discovering.

Thanks Chris from Scotland

 

Good morning,

uhm, and I though doughnuts are responsible for giving stuff mass .

Regards
Gyro

 

doughnuts are responsible for making your ass massive

 

More:http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lhc-higgs-hints-cern

 

The standard model has four forces, with each being mediated by a boson and a meson/lepton. Each with 3 more massive flavours:

ie quarks up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom,

Incidentally top and bottom used to be called truth and beauty but it fell out of favour due to philosophical confusions.

Strong = quarks, gluons
Weak = W,Z bosons, neutrinos, antinuetrinos
Electromagnetism = electrons, photons

Gravity = Higgs?, graviton? (hypothetical)

That's all there is to it really.

A nobel prize was recently awarded for unifying the weak force with electromagnetism, all that is left is to unify gravity and strong with the rest and you have a ToE, Theory of Everything. Currently general relativity cannot be unified with quantum mechanics because of the nature of the equations, one being non euclidean but classical, the other being stochastic or probability based. Higgs gives us the means to possibly reevaluate either QM or relativity so that a model of both can be formulated. As to how important that is, it's massive obviously. (pun intended)



The faster than light thing was found to be a mistake in the observation by the way.

 

That would be pieons.

 

dammit, i was hoping this thread would have pics of higgs' bosom.

 

Nuclear physics doesn't impress me.