"God" Particle Confirmed?

• pmoney25

  

  Seems so and in a few ten billions of years, the Universe will probably be wiped out.
  
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/confirmed-newfound-particle-higgs-130317830.html
• Commander of Awesome

  

  It was pretty much confirmed last year, on the 4th but glad its "official".
• se-alum

  

  A guy I went to school with works for CERN researching the "God" particle.
• Devils Advocate

  

  LJ?
• sleeper

  

  Please call it the Higgs Boson. It's too important to be called anything related to "god". :thumbdown:
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  I don't feel like reading quantum physics today... can someone explain what this means in layman's terms, please?
• justincredible

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;1405738 wrote:I don't feel like reading quantum physics today... can someone explain what this means in layman's terms, please?

  
• sleeper

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;1405738 wrote:I don't feel like reading quantum physics today... can someone explain what this means in layman's terms, please?

  LJ.
• pmoney25

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;1405738 wrote:I don't feel like reading quantum physics today... can someone explain what this means in layman's terms, please?

  Basically the particle that gives matter mass. How the universe was formed.
• Tiernan

  Humans as we know them to be won't be around another 150 yrs... so whoever (or whatever) lands on this empty radioactive rock afterwards can deal with this shit. Until then don't bother me with it...
• O-Trap

  

  pmoney25;1405762 wrote:Basically the particle that gives matter mass. How the universe was formed.

  As I recall, it would demonstrate that some particles have mass when their composition seems to indicate that they ought not.
  
  Also, it doesn't really explain how the universe was formed so much as it explaining the sense of why it exists the way it does, since theoretically, the Higgs particle can be categorized as something of existence which can be studied in universal terms.
  
  Also, this technically seems to indicate that it still isn't confirmed, but that we have new evidence of something we postulate to be the Higgs particle (the decay that is left behind from whatever "it" actually is).
  
  I'm curious about the theorized origins of the Higgs particle, as my understanding is that they send two electrons (?) toward one another at near light speed and, upon collision, they examine the decay which appears to be remnant of this Higgs particle. Do I have that correct?
  
  Damnit, we need someone with an expertise in this kind of thing to chime in.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  The detection of the boson is a very rare event — it takes around 1 trillion (1012) proton-proton collisions for each observed event.
• O-Trap

  

  Commander of Awesome;1405850 wrote:The detection of the boson is a very rare event — it takes around 1 trillion (1012) proton-proton collisions for each observed event.

  Protons! See, I was wrong.
  
  I recall that it is such a rare thing. As such, I again ponder the theorized origin, since the experiment we're using to recreate it still requires it to be a borrowing lender of causation.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  O-Trap;1405853 wrote:Protons! See, I was wrong.
  
  I recall that it is such a rare thing. As such, I again ponder the theorized origin, since the experiment we're using to recreate it still requires it to be a borrowing lender of causation.

  Yeah I know that its predicted in the current model, but how they came to that is unknown to me.
• O-Trap

  

  What's amazing about this is how long ago it was initially theorized to exist. We're now seeing potential evidence of it, and yet, it was first theorized almost 50 years ago!
• believer

  

  The Omega Directive
  
  
• pmoney25

  

  Yea this is above my pay grade. I do enjoy the never ending quest for knowledge though and find this stuff interesting. However you believe this all started, it is quite amazing.
• gut

  
• Mohican00

  

  O-Trap;1405859 wrote:What's amazing about this is how long ago it was initially theorized to exist. We're now seeing potential evidence of it, and yet, it was first theorized almost 50 years ago!

  It almost had to exist (standard model)....otherwise, particle physics would have been set back 50+ years
• O-Trap

  

  Mohican00;1405923 wrote:It almost had to exist (standard model)....otherwise, particle physics would have been set back 50+ years

  I get that. The amazement is more in the developmental span between the initial theory and where we are now. I'm not saying it's not necessary. I'm just saying that it's fascinating.
• believer

  

  gut;1405882 wrote:

  exactly
  
  God particles, the futile search for life on Mars, etc. Fun to watch.