[NormsRevenge]

This track is an example of simulated data modelled for the CMS detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here a Higgs boson is produced and then decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. CREDIT: CERN

[Myrddin]

So what if it is real? What can you do with that knowledge? If you assume it is real, what will you do differently that matters? Does it justify the mountains of money spent building equipment to answer the question?

[Cyber Ninja]

Nothing to add.

Just wanted to post.

[oyez]

Well, son of a gun.

[WorldviewDad]

Let’s see...we are spending billions of dollars and thousands of man hours of highly educated people to try and find this little particle to show that all that we see could have happened be chance (dumb luck)...I fail to see the logic.

Even if it is found we then have to answer the next question...WHY.

[Gene Eric]

>> “If it were to be real, it would be really exciting,” said physicist Sheldon Stone of Syracuse University.

Now, how exactly would Stone know that he’d be excited without evidence of the particle’s existence? Hmm....

[Tolsti2]

This would be one of the primary physics discoveries of the last 30 years or so.

The stupid name of it sucks, but the Higgs Boson is a really amazing idea. It brings the entire universe closer to making all creation down to a few lines of formulas.

IMO, it might be as simple as -1=+1=0. And we’re in one of those sides which seems as real as anything, but in effect is nothing.

[garjog]

I am doing some reading on all of this. Seems like such a discovery could help unify relativity (big picture) and quantum theory (small picture).

The god particle somehow would explain how subatomic particles (virtual particles because they seem more like ideas than things) are connected or something.

This research is significant because they might lead to technology like instantaneous faster than light communication, the possibility of sending messages backward in time, how complex information in DNA and RNA first come into being, taping energy from empty space or perhaps shaping physical reality through consciousness.

[HangnJudge]

Ahh...
But to get an unGodly number of particles
there is nothing like the
Spallation Neutron Source

But they will all be neutral...

[Republic_of_Secession.]

The ironic thing is that the God particle is inherent in the nature of the universe if you follow.

[OldDeckHand]

Do you think this discovery will make my VCR stop blinking 12:00?

It's really starting to get annoying.

[MissMack99]

Thanks Norm, I love this stuff.

[faucetman]

I have trillions of God particles in my yard. It’s called dirt.

[aquila48]

That boson report is just a rumor, whereas there’s indisputable evidence that a bozo has been detected in the white house.

[Stosh]

I suggest they name it “Clapton”.

[Right Wing Assault]

I wonder if this info was leaked on April 1st.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m sponsoring a car in NASCAR called THE SCIENCEMOBILE. I’ve got three physicists from MIT to drive it. They’re going to make one right turn and see what happens. My hypothesis is that they’ll find the God particle.

[EternalVigilance]