Physicists find "God Particle"?

[347Mike]

Thanks for saving me the trouble of getting out my sledge hammer to respond to all that nonsense, Matt.

What am I? Chopped liver?!

[mustangguy289]

No.




You're logic is backwards. The Higgs Boson did not create the Big Bang. The Big Bang happened and then the Higgs was created.

Theory:
After the Big Bang particles had no mass. As the fucking rapidly expanding shit cooled the Higgs Field formed. This field permeates all of the universe and anything that interacts with the field is given mass via the Higgs Boson. More interaction means more mass, less interaction means less mass (eg. photons would have zero interaction).

When trying to explain the four fundamental forces of nature (weak, strong, electromagnetic, gravitational) scientists realized that the weak and electromagnetic forces could actually be described in the same theory ("unified") and this led to the development of The Standard Model. But there was a catch... to make the theory work mathematically the Higgs Boson has to exist.

It should be noted that the Standard Model actually predicted something like 16 fundamental particles (like quarks and leptons which are then made up of other stuff, etc) and all of them but the Higgs Boson have been confirmed via experiment.




Who said it did? Don't misunderstand the use of the term "God" in this one. It's a clever name, nothing more.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. To be honest this article was the first time I have ever heard of the "Biggs Hoson". I am sure it was mentioned in science classes but I never really cared. The way they titled this article I thought they were referring to what started the Big Bang.

As explained above my God comment was more in response to all of the posts on yahoo in response to this. Not really in regards to what was posted in here.

[Strychnine]

3. Proving Big Bang occured does not prove or disprove that there is a supreme being.

The Higgs boson: Why scientists hate that you call it the ‘God particle’

“I hate that “God particle’ term,” said Pauline Gagnon, a Canadian member of CERN’s ATLAS team of so-called “Higgs hunters” – an epithet they do not reject.

“Calling it the ’God particle’ is completely inappropriate,” said the German physicist, who divides his time between CERN and teaching at London’s Imperial College. “It’s not doing justice to the Higgs and what we think its role in the universe is. It has nothing to do with God.”

As such, according to the theory, it was the agent that made the stars, planets – and life – possible by giving mass to most elementary particles, the building blocks of the universe; hence the nickname “God particle

[mustangguy289]

The Higgs boson: Why scientists hate that you call it the ‘God particle’

Damn... yahoo news let me down again .

[talisman]

What am I? Chopped liver?!

Yeah, pretty much.

[347Mike]

Yeah, pretty much.

I hope a higgs makes it way into your ass and explodes...

[mustangguy289]

I hope a higgs makes it way into your ass and explodes...

Oh shit.. then Talisman would be god.

[Duncan]

This is exciting stuff, I have been watching a lot of shows on the Science Channel (seeing black holes, and super massive black holes)....mind blowing, and very interesting content.

Anyway, in our lifetime we should see and understand that which has eluded the human race for centuries (I am hoping anyway)

[talisman]

I hope a higgs makes it way into your ass and explodes...

Not sure how comfortable I am with you thinking about things that you want to explode in my ass.

[slow99]

Does anyone else see the irony in this?

Investing billion of dollars to "hunt" for something that only exists for a billionth of a billionth of a billionth second?

No.

[347Mike]

Not sure how comfortable I am with you thinking about things that you want to explode in my ass.

It wasn't intended, sorry.. Geor sent me a text last night that was directed to "Eric". He must have had the wrong number but by the sounds of it, the higgs is the least of your concerns when involving explosions in your ass...

[46Tbird]

To be honest this article was the first time I have ever heard of the "Biggs Hoson".

lolol

I love seeing scientific progress, but giving this particle a nickname like that is misleading and intentionally creates conflict - and I'm pretty sure the scientists did not give it that name. I find it funny that it immediately ruffles the feathers of the "religious" folks out there.

I also find it funny that some people expect that science will immediately know what to do with a discovery like this. There's no telling what new discoveries it will lead to. The moment itself is exciting.

[TX21]

This is the level I am on....

Big! Bada big boom! Big! BOOM!

[racrguy]

lolol

I love seeing scientific progress, but giving this particle a nickname like that is misleading and intentionally creates conflict - and I'm pretty sure the scientists did not give it that name. I find it funny that it immediately ruffles the feathers of the "religious" folks out there.

I also find it funny that some people expect that science will immediately know what to do with a discovery like this. There's no telling what new discoveries it will lead to. The moment itself is exciting.

TROOF! To the people that think that god started the big bang I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it best. Skip to ~1:30
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HooeZrC76s0[/ame]

[46Tbird]

TROOF! To the people that think that god started the big bang

Hold up there fella... science can't (and likely won't) explain what happened to cause the Big Bang. Or why.