So they found the "God" particle

[noobi]

So why all the hullabaloo with this one? Aren't there 12 fundamental particles already?

There are, but they needed to prove this one existed for the model in which the rest of them belong actually applies.
That being 'The Standard Model', this is kind of the elusive final piece to the puzzle. There is now proof behind why stuff is the way it is, a whole lot more closer to being truth than theory.

[Winston001]

So why all the hullabaloo with this one? Aren't there 12 fundamental particles already?

Um well spose. Personally I got to up, down, and strange quarks, then gluons at which point it all got hazy.

We've never seen or detected a graviton but my guess is the Higgs Boson is it. The particle which attracts other particles and appears to look like gravity.

Course could be wrong.

[Winston001]

....and I was just sayin to Mrs Schrodinger t'other day, where's that blessed cat, when suddenly there he is out of his box and playing with his Higgs Boson like he'd never left.

[bogan]

Another question, did they create it, or did they find it? Cos they were smashing thing up pretty good with the hopes of making new things, right? Or did the God particle just pop up to see what all the racket was about?

[Coldrider]

Another question, did they create it, or did they find it? Cos they were smashing thing up pretty good with the hopes of making new things, right? Or did the God particle just pop up to see what all the racket was about?

I think they have deduced what they are looking for exists (the glue), or they have created a comic synopsis and haven't given the characters names yet.

[ellipsis]

...it's very exciting. like cricket...we are on the threshold of being able to reach through a wormhole and scratch our own arse before it's even itchy...cant wait...

[noobi]

Another question, did they create it, or did they find it? Cos they were smashing thing up pretty good with the hopes of making new things, right? Or did the God particle just pop up to see what all the racket was about?

Like Coldrider said, they just have strong evidence (>99%) that what they think is there, is there.
You cant really see things smaller than a single atom, so working out that its there isnt as easy as looking.
They can do fusion, combining of atoms, without a collider. They aren't trying to make things with the collider, just work out whats in the stuff they're smashing up.

[Brian d marge]

....and I was just sayin to Mrs Schrodinger t'other day, where's that blessed cat, when suddenly there he is out of his box and playing with his Higgs Boson like he'd never left.

Sorry it twas with Lord Lucan

have it on good authority from bloke down the pub

Stephen

[Coldrider]

They have found a particle which fits with Higgs theory, if I read the full artical I would be lead to believe the journo discovered it.

[Ocean1]

They have found a particle which fits with Higgs theory, if I read the full artical I would be lead to believe the journo discovered it.

That they haven't done. In examining the debris of collisions in the LHD they've found evidence of the existance, (better than 99% confidence) of entities likely to result in such collisions IF Higgs theory is correct.

[Coldrider]

That they haven't done. In examining the debris of collisions in the LHD they've found evidence of the existance, (better than 99% confidence) of entities likely to result in such collisions IF Higgs theory is correct.

hence my post number #20, which was before I read an article today, which says they have, which comes back to my remark about the journalism.

[avgas]

They have found proof it "consistently" exists.......aka they have data showing particles consistently changing. Mr Hawking lost the bet because he stated that they would never find prove that it 'could' exist (within his lifetime).

Anyone know what they are currently doing with the other 8 or so particles that don't exist in all known things? I mean what use is ingredients if you can't bake a cake?

[Coldrider]

ATLAS has found a 5 sigma particle, and CNS have found a 4.9 sigma particle (4.9-sigma signal of a new particle with a mass of 126.5 GigaelectronVolts (GeV) and 125.2 GeV respectively - a result which falls slap bang in the middle of the tough-to-explore region where many physicists were adamant the Higgs was hiding). Disregarding the meaning of 'found', are they talking up the same particle, or different particles.

[Brian d marge]

but I cant see what all the fuss is all about ? Instead of spending how much , ? on this machine ..they could have talked to my wife , she speaks to god on a regular basis

when I come home from the pub pissed as ,,,,,,,oh god

when I give her one on friday nite ( after the pub ) ...oh god

when I do the washing .....oh god

when she get s my credit card bill , for a that month ...oh god

when ive been eating curry and Im watching tv , let one of those ripp roarer curry farts loose .......oh god

guiness farts .......oh god


Im sure with such an open channel of communication , she could have asked about a particle belonging to him upstairs !

in fact if they dont mind waiting a bit , till I get home tonite , I will ask him myself

Stephen