Have they finally found Higgs Boson?

It goes on all the time.

 

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=387/
Baffles me zig x

 

If its put like that then it makes sense.

In laypersons terms, its saying that you can't know the answer if you don't know the question, as its impossible to see both at the same time.

Guess that brings us back to religion again

I do know the Vicar of Greenham Common Church. Should I invite him over here to put his point of view, he's a very nice bloke.

 

My interpretation of what they're saying is slightly different. What its saying is that as long as two things don't know about each other, they can do what they want, but as soon as they can see each other, they have to comply with the established universal laws.

Its saying its ok for two people to dance naked in their own gardens, but only if there's a high fence or hedge between the two, otherwise they have to behave.

 

Isn't that what I said, but with with the Strong & weak electromagnetic forces being the hedge?

 

Dim you make it sound like they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes (excuse the pun)
You are not the only person who is skeptical about the origin of the universe and the big bang. Thats why they are doing the experiments in the first place! I have heard people working at the LHC on TV saying themselves they dont think the higgs boson exists thats not to say they are wasting there time they are simply trying to prove or disprove different scientific theories ranging from dark matter, the origins or the universe, parralell dimensions and who knows what else. Even if they dont find higgs boson there is still lots of other things they can be doing to keep themselves busy - its called scientific research and without it there would not even be jedi knights or C3POs Here are just some of the things they are looking at. But there website is better!

• Are the masses of elementary particles actually generated by the Higgs mechanism via electroweak symmetry breaking?[14] It is expected that the collider will either demonstrate or rule out the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, thereby allowing physicists to consider whether the Standard Model or its Higgsless model alternatives are more likely to be correct.[15][16][17]
• Is supersymmetry, an extension of the Standard Model and Poincaré symmetry, realised in nature, implying that all known particles have supersymmetric partners?[18][19][20]
• Are there extra dimensions,[21] as predicted by various models based on string theory, and can we detect them?[22]
• What is the nature of the dark matter that appears to account for 23% of the mass-energy of the universe?

Other open questions that may be explored using high energy particle collisions:

• It is already known that electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are different manifestations of a single force called the electroweak force. The LHC may clarify whether the electroweak force and the strong nuclear force are similarly just different manifestations of one universal unified force, as predicted by various Grand Unification Theories.
• Why is the fourth fundamental force (gravity) so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other three fundamental forces? See also Hierarchy problem.
• Are there additional sources of quark flavour mixing, beyond those already predicted within the Standard Model?
• Why are there apparent violations of the symmetry between matter and antimatter? See also CP violation.
• What are the nature and properties of quark-gluon plasma, believed to have existed in the early universe and in certain compact and strange astronomical objects today? This will be investigated by heavy ion collisions in ALICE.

 

Right out of your mouth and you didnt even notice :WINK1:

 

The day they switched the LHC, my mate Dave said he'd printed something out at home, lost the print out, and then found it some time later on the draining board in his kitchen.

'Heavy ion collisions in Alice'? Who's Alice?

 

Maybe she is a rat they have at the centre of the LHC firing particles at

 

This cartoon raises a very good point. We know that at the subatomic level, in the gap between the particles that make up an atom, spacetime as we know it doesn't exist. That's where strange things happen like a particle both existing and not existing simultaneously, or being into two places at once, or in two points in time.

So therefore, consider this. Maybe activity at the LHC now, created our universe 13.8 billion years ago. I.e. we created ourselves. So, if the boffins at CERN don't spend all their millions on research, then we might just pop out of existence, but worse, we'll pop out of history, and in fact never have even existed.

So, the chaps and chapesses at CERN have a duty not only to us lot, but to creatures everywhere and everywhen, to blow that hole on the spacetime continuum so that our universe can pop into existence minus 13.8 billion years in the future.