Well considering that a 5 sigma event means they're 99.99999995% sure of what they've discovered then yes that is close enough. It's basically what most other proven particles started out as in past research.
Awesome stuff indeed! For a project that took so long to build and it has achieved so much. Also, on a much more basic level; it's a 26km wide particle accelerator! It's frikkin' awesome Cannot believe however, that some people are complaining about the cost of it and stating that the money would be better spent on other things. Sorry, but get lost with that kind of stupidity. €10 billion is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the expenditure of defence networks or even loans. Ireland has over €90 Billion in debts and rising, €10 Billion would barely fix anything for us. Rough cost of the war in Iraq was in the region of €560 Billion. The LHC is a massive project that expands our knowledge and understanding of the universe in which we exist, it is money well spent. I tip my hat to all involved with it.
Figure-nazi Still can't get over it, this is flipping awesome definitely something to tell the kids sometime in the future.
I bet it turns out greater than the speed of light.. like this one guy was with another guy in the power room (because that's how they roll at lhc).. his balls got zapped and they snuck out- it created the error steven hawking said he lost 100 bucks.. but higgs went in his pockets and took it all- nothing he could do about it
Absolutely. It certainly has been a great and memorable day. Cheers to you guys at CERN ... I bet quite a number of bottles of champagne gets popped tonight.
What exactly is so special about the HB anyway? From what I gather it seems to be evidence of a higgs-field (which I know gives particles mass but I don't know the details) but I don't know whay that is. Is this partcular boson hypothesised by the existance of a higgs-field? Or it there more to it than that (why is it called the god particle)? To me it just seems like another (exotic) boson. To me it's a bit like finding Unbihexium or one of those other theoretical elements and proclaiming it a revolution in Chemistry. It it something that's possible to explain without going into great depth?
I'd say that £10billion is cheap for an organisation that probes the very fabric of space itself and advances our understanding in a fundamental way - as they say on xkcd - science - it works bitches Congrats to those involved on a job very well done
^^^ Full of win! You Sir, officially work in the coolest place on Earth. You are probably wearing a T-shirt now that says: "My particles got MASS, baby!".
That's a no to the t-shirt but Dear God Nexxo that is a brilliant idea. Give me a week and i'll have one with that on it.
^^^^ That is a very impressive explanation of something difficult to get across to people without prior knowledge of particle physics. Put me in mind of this which is equally orsum Al's Relativistic Adventures
Bumped into Professor Brian Cox looking a bit down, so I asked him "What's the matter?". Longest reply ever.....
I think your IT guys should go through all the Windows PCs in your workplace and systematically delete the Comic Sans font from all C:\Windows\Fonts directories. I mean, some technology is just too dangerous to leave in the hands of nuclear physicists.
