'God particle' may have been seen

BBC News Online ^ | Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 | By Paul Rincon

[Physicist]

Could this be the final piece of the puzzle?

No. There are still features of the Standard Model that would remain unexplained.

[Physicist]

What are the odds against the Higgs boson actually being three particles?

I don't know of any models where there are three Higgs particles. I think the first non-minimal Higgs model has four (a positively charged Higgs, a negatively charged Higgs, a neutral scalar Higgs, and a neutral pseudoscalar).

[Rebelbase]

Please, in 100 words or less a translation for those of us who have at the most only completed Physics 101.

Many thanks.

[Consort]

Could this be the final piece of the puzzle?

I'll take a wild guess that they aren't even close.

[Momaw Nadon]

Please, in 100 words or less a translation for those of us who have at the most only completed Physics 101.

Physicist, would you like to field this question?

[Oberon]

I don't know.

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

[Consort]

The Ultimate Unified Theory of Everything includes: Photons, Croutons, Neurons, Futons, Carrions, Gravitons, Crayons, and Morons.

[Victor]

"...Well, I think if something can attain the speed of light, it's massless....."

Einstein, I believe, basically theorized that as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite.

[highpockets]

LOL

[Oberon]

Please, in 100 words or less a translation for those of us who have at the most only completed Physics 101.

The magicians are doing their magic and learning new spells. Once they've worked out exactly how this Higgs spell works, they'll understand other spells better, and might be able (in some distant future) to make these spells work together to help us in ways that they currently don't.

There. And it's only 48 words, too.

[PatrickHenry]

PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[Oberon]

I thought it was time for a confidence-builder. =]

[StriperSniper]

The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass

If the fast food fat bill doesn't become law, expect McDonalds to become a prime funder of the search.

[Ophiucus]

Currently they don't think electrons are made of anything smaller.

What about strings - as in string theory.

[P.O.E.]

I agree. I even suspect there may come a time when they find they need a new model.

[cornelis]

Could this be the final piece of the puzzle?

Postmodern God-questions about postmodern crop circles.

[hgro]

At what point is something massless?

Answer: When you have a dimocrat candidate named John "the flipper" Kerry.

[Shryke]

Translated: "As so often happens in government funded boondoggling, achieving a stated goal requires another more impossible goal to be funded by the taxpayers."

Further translated: Libertarians would have all of us living in caves before spending a dollar on science.

Hey there occupied!

[atlaw]

Sorry, I missed your comment. LOL. Although these actually look to me more like neoclassical crop circles.

[from occupied ga]

Further translated: Libertarians would have all of us living in caves before spending a dollar on science.

Howdy ho Shrike

Libertarians would allow us the choice of spending our money on upgrading our own caves or having our wealth looted by the the government to squander on big magnet lined caves for highly paid scientists to quibble over esoterica in.