Higgs Boson Discovered

[DanaC]

The clue there is in the description 'Higgs-like'. I've heard a number of scientists talking about this, including some of those working at the LHC and they're not saying this is Higgs Bosun. They're saying it is a bosun, and is apparently Higgs-like in that it behaves in ways they would expect such to behave. But that it might be another kind of particle in which case that would be just as interesting.

[Lamplighter]

BusinessDay
9/13/12
THE INSIDER: Governmentium — the heaviest known element

"The CSIR in collaboration with the Large Hadron Collider
has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element is Governmentium (Gv).

It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and
198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons,
which are surrounded by vast quantities of lefton-like particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons or protons, it is inert.
However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that normally takes
less than a second to require four days to four years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of two to six years.
It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which
a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time,
since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons,
forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe
Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium,
an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium
since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
All of the money is consumed in the exchange, and no other by-products are produced."

This discovery has been scientifically confirmed in Switzerland...

Newser
Kevin Spak
9/10/12

CERN Wants Even Bigger Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider just isn't large enough for CERN.

The Geneva-based team that found the Higgs boson has set its sights
on bigger and better things—emphasis on the bigger—and is now proposing
replacing the current collider, which runs through 17 miles of tunnel,
with a new one that's a full 50 miles long, the Daily Mail reports.

This new collider would study a host of new physics mysteries,
including how gravity works on a particle level.
"We have a wild new frontier of physics to explore," one physics professor
involved in the decision said. "We can do some of that work by upgrading the LHC,
but in the end it will need a more powerful machine."

The bad news: the new collider likely wouldn't be finished until 2025.

[Happy Monkey]

If it takes 20 years to build, you have to start building it at least 20 years before you run out of things to do with the current one.

[tw]

If a Higgs bosom exists, does that mean Higgs is a she?

[Lamplighter]

You're confusing it with a Higgs bison

[footfootfoot]

Huge bosoms? Where do I sign up?

[tw]

Bosoms are what makes top quarks top heavy. When scientists discuss bosoms, they also discuss spin. Does that mean Higg's is a blond?

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

If it takes 20 years to build, you have to start building it at least 20 years before you run out of things to do with the current one.

make a note:

Once we invent the time machine, go back in time to 1992, and tell ourselves to start NOW! then it should be ready by now.

what? It worked for Bill and Ted!

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Why would parents name their baby girl "Higgs" ?

Fans of Aliens. Wanted to be able to say, "Somebody wake up Higgs" on a regular basis.

Damn. That was Hicks.

[Lamplighter]

You saw it here...



Physicists Peter Higgs, right, and Francois Englert attend a news conference at CERN,
near Geneva, on July 4, 2012. Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Two European scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for describing the Higgs boson,
a theoretical particle that may explain where mass comes from and advances
man’s understanding of how the world is constructed.

Peter Higgs, 84, a retired professor of theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh,
and Francois Englert, 80, a retired professor at the Free University of Brussels,
will share the 8 million-krona ($1.25 million) prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
said today in Stockholm.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Higgs and his lover Englert, share the $1.25 million... after they dumped Boson's body in some dark cold moor.

[lumberjim]

Jazz hands!

[BigV]

I wish ZenGum would start participating here again.

[Sundae]

Was he Higgs' lover as well?
He must be proud as all bejesus.

[BigV]

don't know, don't care.

I saw this thread recently returned to the top of the active group of threads, and noticed his name as author. That reminded me that I miss his input, that we're all poorer for his absence.