Wonderful news!

[Fozzer]

The Higgs

[expat]

Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.

Both of the Higgs boson-hunting experiments at the LHC see a level of certainty in their data worthy of a "discovery".

More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.

So they have almost, nearly not quite found it. Better back to the beach Paul......

Matt

[Fozzer]

I look upon the discussions of the Higgs boson particle with the same incredulity as the musings of brain surgeons, motor mechanics, and politicians...

...most of us haven't got the slightest idea what they are rambling on about....most of the time! :-?...!

Paul... ...!

[machineman9]

Yeah they've found something which seems to suggest the Higgs, but they're not quite certain yet. Before it can be added to the standard model, they need to know if they've found the stereotypical Higgs, or just an 'isotope' or variation of the standard Higgs.

I hear they're going to a night club later to celebrate - It'll be the Higgs Massive 

[Fozzer]

Latest News.

It appears that the person entrusted to deliver the Higgs Boson Particle to the ensemble of Scientists and News Media gathered at Geneva has unfortunately dropped it through a crack in the floorboards whilst passing it to the Speaker*...

The search continues...

Paul... 8-)...!

* ....possibly...

[ozzy72]

Thank goodness all those physicists aren't musical or we'd be looking for the Higgs Bassoon

[jetprop]

I look upon the discussions of the Higgs boson particle with the same incredulity as the musings of brain surgeons, motor mechanics, and politicians...

...most of us haven't got the slightest idea what they are rambling on about....most of the time! :-?...!

Paul... ...!

Fozzer,I will explain it all at your level:

There are magical little fairies that makes planets spin and orbit another object,they stop it all from crashing into eachother,they also give stuff a little push every now and again.
That's all I can explain at your level.

[expat]

I look upon the discussions of the Higgs boson particle with the same incredulity as the musings of brain surgeons, motor mechanics, and politicians...

...most of us haven't got the slightest idea what they are rambling on about....most of the time! :-?...!

Paul... ...!

Fozzer,I will explain it all at your level:

There are magical little fairies that makes planets spin and orbit another object,they stop it all from crashing into eachother,they also give stuff a little push every now and again.
That's all I can explain at your level.

Well I am still confused............... :-/ :-/

Matt

[machineman9]

Thank goodness all those physicists aren't musical or we'd be looking for the Higgs Bassoon

There's a photographer who goes by the name of Higgs, and he's actually quite good at photographing Bison. No, really 

[Steve M]

Not so new news. I got some Boson particles years ago, on Ebay.

[andy190]

Mr. Higgs will be pleased... [smiley=thumbsup.gif] ...!

Professor Hawking isn't. The discovery cost him a 100 bucks.

[Webb]

Just give us ten years and another billion dollars of tax money and we'll really have something!

It won't have any practical use but by golly we'll be another step closer to discovering the origin of the universe, which was 14 billion years ago and that knowledge also has no practical use.

[andy190]

Just give us ten years and another billion dollars of tax money and we'll really have something!

Are you saying the Large Hadron Collider & associated technologies have no practical use?

If so you a grossly misinformed:

[quote]The Medipix All Resolution Systems (Mars) CT (computerised tomography) scanner creates true-colour X-rays using technology developed at Canterbury University and Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research on the border of France and Switzerland.

"There are lots of times where in an ordinary CT scan you can't really tell what's happening, so you might get an MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] scan or ultrasound, or even both, to try to sort out what is happening. But if you can have this colour information, it can help diagnosis."

The Mars' key component, the X-ray camera, was a "spinoff" from the Large Hadron Collider

[U4EA]

Thank goodness all those physicists aren't musical or we'd be looking for the Higgs Bassoon

If they were plastic surgeons looking for Higgs Bosoms I'd hazard a guess the search wouldn't have taken this long.

[andy190]

I can remember losing it on the beach, after a trip to Southend-on Sea, sea-side in 1967*

Then Paul shouldn't it be called the Fosberry Boson?