Comic sans is actually one of the more commonly available fonts which is extra easy for dyslexics to read - just FYI.
I have a habit of asking dumb questions apparently, but while I understand what this means in proving the "standard model" of physics, and what the Higgs is and all that, what will it actually DO for us? What's the payoff?
From my very limited experience reading about all this, I've learned that some researchers are actually hoping that the findings won't simply prove the standard model. In a way, if it only confirms what physicists already thought, then they haven't learned anything new. The hope is that while the Higgs confirms a few things, it may actually raise a few interesting findings in the process. As for what the findings actually yield, what might be the big payoff - I think that's one of those wonderful things about science and intellectual curiosity. When the positron was first observed in 1929, I presume some people asked the same question then. Anyone who has ever had a PET scan is certainly happy that someone had the desire to figure out one of the universe's many puzzles. What will the Higgs give us? I have no idea, but I'm excited that some people were curious enough to find it. In other words, "Oh, Mr. Randall and Mr. Boot. I see you've invented a magnetron. That's nice and all, but can it cook dinner for me?"
Well, I was more wondering from the viewpoint of a philosopher who has to ask what the concrete application is sometimes. Not being a physicist (most of the time) I don't always know if there's something we can use it for, or if we're just doing it because we're curious. That said, I do lots of experiments simply because I'm curious.
Winows? What is this foul sorcery you speak of? Lol the only Windows desktop users tend to be HR and finance(some others, not many) the rest of us have a choice between Mac(Mini or Book) and PC and if PC then we can install any OS we want. (Including Gentoo if you're so inclined) EDIT: Although if you install Ubuntu then the general consensus is that you deserve to be thrown into the LHC when it's running collisions.
Like many, if not most scientific discoveries, I'd imagine it has little application right now as we're just beginning to understand it (well, people infinitely more intelligent than me are at least), but there's no predicting what future scientists could do with the knowledge.
