The Higgs Boson

[Arkalis]

Now, please, I'd like some intelligent online discussion for once. This is the biggest thing to happen in physics in the last 40 years.

intelligent online discussion
intelligent online discussion
intelligent online discussion

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You divided by zero, didn't you?

But seriously, I'm intrigued by this but will wait until they re-revise everything...I don't want another faster-than-light-neutrino

[TheEconomist]

Again, topic would be back on track if people would stop getting it back off track by pointing out that it had been off track. Ended.

[Visions of Khas]

I just wonder how something that confers mass to other particles has a mass of its own... and easily outweighs a proton. wtf, science.

My favorite particle, by the way, is the neutrino. It's Catholic.

[Eligor]

I just wonder how something that confers mass to other particles has a mass of its own... and easily outweighs a proton. wtf, science.

My favorite particle, by the way, is the neutrino. It's Catholic.

A particle that embodies and "expresses" the concept of mass? What if there is a separate particle for every physical property? What ARE particles anyway? Which really means, where's the limit of what they can do? It seems that on the "particular" level of scale a lot of "abstract" concepts like that begin to be expressed physically since Newtonian rules of physics don't apply anymore.

But of course that's a "philosophical" rather than scientific viewpoint. Even tho' the gap between the two seems more and more narrow the more advanced physics are being discussed.

[TheEconomist]

We need newer, more advanced drugs to advance physics any further.

[Pr0nogo]

No.
No.

[Arkalis]

Weee requiiire more vespene gaass

[TheEconomist]

No.
No.

This is why Poland is nowhere to be found in the advancement of physics.

Translation: It's a joke. Relax.

[The_Blade]

Our main problem right now is that we can't understand more than 4D. The movement of electrons and other subatomic particles is just impossible according to our common ideas of dimensions. So, I agree on the use of drugs for reasearch, specially on those crazy scientists.

[DemolitionSquid]

Our main problem right now is that we can't understand more than 4D. The movement of electrons and other subatomic particles is just impossible according to our common ideas of dimensions. So, I agree on the use of drugs for reasearch, specially on those crazy scientists.

We can understand more than 4D, we just can't do much with the knowledge in a practical sense. We don't even have control over the 4th dimension (time) yet - we can only travel 1 way. Using the next 6 dimensions for anything tangible is completely out of our grasp right now.