Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson
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Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson
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#2Just in time for the new Pope, they confirm the existence of the particle that gives Mass!
Someone up there having a joke, obviously.
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#3A physicist friend of mine said, half jokingly, that with that much money poured into the project they had no other option but to find that damn boson.
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#4The physics involved is fascinating, although a true appreciation of what a Higgs Boson is would take years (i.e. most of a PhD).
The organisation of such a vast data-processing task has surely brought about many discoveries in "big-data" and parallel computing that are not directly related to the discoveries in physics. Much like the research into the magnets that power the accelerator has led to new MRI machines. To people who don't see the point in "science for science's sake", this is a massive spin-off of CERN that will hopefully greatly benefit the world.
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#5Another science news that will be disconfirmed in 1-2 days?
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#6The physics involved is fascinating, although a true appreciation of what a Higgs Boson is would take years (i.e. most of a PhD). The organisation of such a vast data-processing task has surely brought about many discoveries in "big-data" and parallel computing that are not directly related to the discoveries in physics. Much like the research into the magnets that power the accelerator has led to new MRI machines. T…
To those who forgot, the web as we know it was also pretty much invented at CERN [1] so anyone who is against "science for science's sake" is indeed missing a major point.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#1...
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#7With big science news like this, it's always best to go to the source[0] to avoid sensationalism. Of note, is the following statement which isn't getting repeated much in the mainstream news sources:
"It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time."
I find this to be a pretty important distinguishing factor. Not only will it take a while before they really do know, but it may not, in fact, be the Higgs so many have been searching for to fit into the Standard Model.
Many news sources are already claiming that the "god particle" has been found.
[0] - http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/03/new-results-...
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#8This article reads like it was written by a third grader.
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#9I wonder. If this adds one more trust factor to the standard model, does that mean it'll hold forever? Maybe? There must be some level on which we can baseline our understanding of the universe. Maybe this is it? maybe [1]?
[1] http://news.discovery.com/space/we-might-not-live-in-a-holog...
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#10The physics involved is fascinating, although a true appreciation of what a Higgs Boson is would take years (i.e. most of a PhD). The organisation of such a vast data-processing task has surely brought about many discoveries in "big-data" and parallel computing that are not directly related to the discoveries in physics. Much like the research into the magnets that power the accelerator has led to new MRI machines. T…
Part of me is rather skeptical that the giant mound of assumptions about hardware, software, and physics backing this discovery is correct. However, I have a lot more faith in them then I do in most human endeavors and I fundamentally don't understand what's going on. Which I find to be an odd feeling.