Posted on 07/05/2012 9:57:20 AM PDT by Ed25
What in the world is a spotty star? You and I do not agree. Yet I am not rude to you. Are you always rude to people with whom you do not agree? I cannot imagine. I do not agree with you yet I would not be rude to you. I do not demand all agree with me. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
I have no idea what that has to do with me. None.
It’s astronomy geek talk, dear spotty star honey.
Shine on the Beach Babe all you want, but don’t forget, the Tray-Zimm fight took place in pouring rain and items that were used in the fight also sat in the pouring rain. Things might look a little different after that than they would under, er, a nice dry spotty star.
Well, there is nothing wrong with geek talk, darlin’.
And I haven’t called you a Higgs boson. That’s something that’s saved for folks who think the weight of the world revolves around themselves. Like Al Sharpton. If anyone in this land was a Higgs boson, it’s he and Barack Obama.
I certainly agree with you re: Al Sharpton. He is the definition of narcissim.
Narcissism also. I left out a syllable. Sometimes I am an enchilada removed from being a mexican plate. Sorry.
The Higgs boson, whose discovery was announced just last week by all the geeks at the supercollider that allegedly produced a few hundred of them, is about as self important a particle as you could get in nature. It’s part of a new theory of gravity. Without Higgs bosons (or rather, something like a grits-bowl of Higgs boson guts — the scientists call it a “Higgs field” — spread out thinly throughout the universe), nothing would have any weight.
So Al Sharpton is quite the Higgs boson.
I had no idea. Quite interesting and yes, it seems that fits Sharpton to a “t”. Thank you for the information. And I will not ever admit I first read Higgs Bosom.
I had no idea. Quite interesting and yes, it seems that fits Sharpton to a “t”. Thank you for the information. And I will not ever admit I first read Higgs Bosom.
Oh a rock a my soul, in the boson of Abraham... oops now THAT would be a place to use bosom.
Scientists named the silly particle after a physics researcher that was a contemporary of Albert Einstein. His last name was Bose, like the loudspeakers. So scientists got the name boson for certain odd particles found in nature, and nobody else heard or cared about it until the research announcement of last week when it was proven that this Higgs boson, that the theoretical scientists expected to exist, really does exist. It’s an itty bitty bump in the data, but they have calculated that they can be something like 99% sure it’s genuine.
I wish the science that went into this case was as meticulous. Too often it seems to be a process of marking with chalk and cutting with an axe.
This is so interesting. I cannot wait to tell my grandson who loves anything to do with astronomy. Thank you so much.
The next time the bathroom scale reads higher than you’d like, you could just blame the Higgs bosons for giving you that weight.
At your years maybe you remember the silly commercials for Spry shortening. It was so light — it had been whipped at the factory — the can would go floating near the ceiling, much to the inconvenience of the cook who had to chase it on a stepladder. But it supposedly produced the best cakes. Never saw any after the sixties. Plain old dense Crisco carried the day.
Never heard of it. I did not start cooking till the late 60’s so I was a crisco girl. Will have to ask sister if she remembers Spry shortening.
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