[Momaw Nadon]

FYI and discussion

[sirchtruth]

Why don't bytes or thoughts have mass, or do they?

At what point is something massless?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

What happened to protons and neutrons? When I was a kid we learned that a cloud of electrons orbited around a clump of protons and neutrons.

[P.O.E.]

Could this be the final piece of the puzzle?

[Momaw Nadon]

Ping!

[per loin]

What are the odds against the Higgs boson actually being three particles?

[commish]

I've seen the Higgs Bosom, and while quite impressive I am not sure it rates an entire article.

Huh? what? Boson? ohhhhhhh. oops. never mind.

[Semper Paratus]

Next would they be looking for Bosun's Mate?

Sorry.

[Prodigal Son]

For a time, many were still refering the Top and Bottom quarks as Truth and Beauty. I liked that. When they were trying to find the Top quark, they could then say 'We are looking for the Truth'.

[Physicist]

This is old news. In fact, they delayed the shutdown of the LEP collider in November 2000 by one month because of the suggestive evidence for a Higgs particle at 115 GeV. It's not clear from the article why this is being rehashed now.

[Rebelbase]

Please, in 100 words or less a translation for those of us who have at the most only completed Physics 101.

Many thanks.

[StriperSniper]

The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass

If the fast food fat bill doesn't become law, expect McDonalds to become a prime funder of the search.

[cornelis]

Could this be the final piece of the puzzle?

Postmodern God-questions about postmodern crop circles.

[mtbopfuyn]

Those are mighty pretty pictures, but I didn't see an old man in flowing white robes.

[unspun]

Feast away, ladies....   ;-`

[hershey]

Fascinating! Presumably somebody is chomping at the bit to verify this by reproducing it?

[RightWingAtheist]

Last month I attended a speech given by a science historian at Georgia Tech (John Krige is his name, I believe), who gave a fascinating lecture on the creation of CERN. It turns out that Europe's greatest physics facility was actually an American intiative created under the Marshal Plan, not just to aid in the reconstruction of postwar Europe, but to ensure Western scientific superiority encourage scientists on the other side of the Iron Curtain to defect to the West. It was opposed by some of the leading scientists of the time such as Frederic Joliot and Patrick Blackett (both great scientists but unfortunately, also left-wing lunatics), who felt it would diminish the Soviet's industrial and military lead. Fortunately, saner men, such as Niels Bohr (who was privately anti-communist, although he wasn't as outspoken as, Teller or Von Neumann) and I. I. Rabi managed to rally enough support amongst the European scientific community to get the facility started.