Higgs boson found!

ghoti said:
I dont need to be. I have mass ergo something is giving me mass. Its kinda that simple.
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Lol, no. There are alternative theories as stated, untill then simply believing it is like believing in Nessie.
 
Devill said:
Lol, no. There are alternative theories as stated, untill then simply believing it is like believing in Nessie.
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Um, not really (huge difference between a myth and scientific theory, experimentation, etc)... but whatever.
 
Quick question for those in the know.

Is there such a thing as an anti-boson or is normal boson's the same for matter and anti-matter?
 
Devill said:
Well if you were a theoretical physicist with lots of data to prove that it exists, then that statement would make a difference:p
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That's the problem, theoretical physicists don't have data, they only have theories! The experimentalists have to show that the theories are true!

:p
 
BigAl-sa said:
That's the problem, theoretical physicists don't have data, they only have theories! The experimentalists have to show that the theories are true!

:p
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Lol, yes yes. What I mean is that the "HB particle theory" might be a front runner as a possible theory but it sure is not the only theory that has merit.

I found it funny that a lot of people think the HB particle is the only theory that could make the "theory" reconsile with the date :D
 
Elimentals said:
I guess you missed Back to the future II & III?

Well simply put Higgs = mass = is where gravity comes from, so in 3 years time they will have mastered it and we will be able to get hoverboards.
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By latest 21 October 2015 ;)
 
..... HB particle != mass.....

It is not the sole giver of mass in the universe.
 
Elimentals said:
I guess you missed Back to the future II & III?

Well simply put Higgs = mass = is where gravity comes from, so in 3 years time they will have mastered it and we will be able to get hoverboards.
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phaktza said:
By latest 21 October 2015 ;)
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I thought that was the Graviton, another theoretical boson?
 
Alrighty then pedants - it may not be *the* Higgs boson, but it behaves very closely to how the HB is predicted to:

http://dkue3ufa3e1f8.cloudfront.net/files/images/cms_hrate.jpg

From that image, the actual (measured) coupling ratios and spin, jive quite well with the theoretical attributes of the HB.

So yes, they haven't said it is the HB yet, but the fact that CERN is announcing this with such fanfare means they're very sure of what they've found.
 
smalltownsky said:
cue the online hippies:

"I don't like Wikipedia, you know? Like, anyone can edit the information and it's always changing, and it's like, so unreliable."

Ban books, give the money to wikipedia, give everyone internet. you've just saved humanity
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I like how they make comments like this on Wikipaedia
Is there any chance that someone could write a short article understandable by the layman? I have read and re-read the article and could easily be reading another language - it's so complicated!

By the way, English is my mother tongue.
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If you 'dumbed it down' then you wouldn't really knbow what it is about, so what is the point?

Everything can't be understandable by all.
 
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