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Sign up with GoogleLHC Claims new particle discovery
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Interesting times.
Confirmation of the Higgs boson appears to imply that there is a Higgs field that provides mass to anything. And this Higgs field is labelled by some as the Higgs-ether and this apparently has the potential to clash with general relativity.
Confirmation of the Higgs boson appears to imply that there is a Higgs field that provides mass to anything. And this Higgs field is labelled by some as the Higgs-ether and this apparently has the potential to clash with general relativity.
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If that shyte doesn't get them laid nothing will.
Whoops.
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The antichrist particle to some. But yes, that thing...
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/ne...mystery-behind-god-particle/238203?v_also_see
(posted 26 minutes ago)
(posted 26 minutes ago)
Why is it considered anti christ?
Does this particle disprove that GOD exists? Most know it's fiction but would this be conclusive evidence that god is a lie?
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The black-hole nonsense that the xtian brigade got a stiffy about...
No.
Do you think we will ever have evidence that invisible unicorns don't exist?
Edit: even though some believe they are extinct
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This particle has got sweet nothings to do with God, some daft scientist shortened it's nickname "the God dammit particle", because it proved so hard to find with so many false discoveries, to the God particle and of course the media picked up on it and use it to drive religiots nuts!!!
Elementary particle physics is the only branch of science that religious nuts absolutely cannot comment about, so please don't invite them in by calling it the God particle...
Elementary particle physics is the only branch of science that religious nuts absolutely cannot comment about, so please don't invite them in by calling it the God particle...
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Can watch the Release here http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html
I don't know why people think that empirical science can confirm or refute the notion that creation ex nihilo is true or false, or think that empirical science can confirm or refute the notion that every contingent being can continue to exist without something sustaining/conserving it in existence. Conflating unicorns with God is also dishonest or ignorant or a combination of both. But that is a story for another time.
So no, this discovery has no theological significance.
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So what exactly is new with this announcement ?
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The god damn particle..
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It is just as much prove for both arguments as what gravity is prove for or against it.
A few weeks ago they discovered 2 new elements, and now this.
amazing to think what we have accomplished in the last 50 years. (or even, in the last 20 years)
Are there any smart guys out there that can fill us in on the real world implications of this discovery? (minus the fact that it confirms our prev understanding of particles)
amazing to think what we have accomplished in the last 50 years. (or even, in the last 20 years)
Are there any smart guys out there that can fill us in on the real world implications of this discovery? (minus the fact that it confirms our prev understanding of particles)