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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Hints of Higgs from the Large Hadron Collider
NASA ^
| December 18, 2011
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Posted on 12/18/2011 8:13:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. Since 2008, the LHC smashed protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds. The LHC is exploring the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. Were high energy colliding particles to create real Higgs bosons, the Higgs mechanism for mass creation will be bolstered. Last week, two LHC groups reported on preliminary indications that the Higgs boson might exist around 120 GeV in mass. Data from the LHC collisions is also being scanned for micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and explore the possibility that every type of fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible supersymmetric counterpart. You can help -- the LHC@Home project will allow anyone with a home computer to help LHC scientists search archived LHC data for these strange beasts. Pictured above, a person stands in front of the huge ATLAS detector, one of six detectors attached to the LHC.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; higgsboson; lhc; science; stringtheory
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[Credit & Copyright: Maximilien Brice, CERN]
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:13:19 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:15:39 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
For the first time since I picked up these duties, I didn't have any search and replace hits for links inside APoD. Ordinarily there are links in the day's APoD text to earlier APoDs. But anyway, this one is also going to the String Theory list. :') This pic looks like it was drawn by Giger.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:16:32 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:20:14 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: SunkenCiv
The LHC is the largest particle collider yet created by humans? I want to see the one created by cats. I’ll bet it has a ball of yarn. They know string theory, those cats.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:24:29 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SunkenCiv
I think the bosons are just stringing us along.
To: left that other site
To: left that other site
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:28:08 AM PST
by
brivette
To: SunkenCiv
Can you imagine how many boxes it would take to get that as a Heathkit?
:^)
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:38:18 AM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
(Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
To: brivette
I like that picture so much, I am copying it to glue on my computer.
To: SunkenCiv
Well, her I am, expecting to see a photo of a gas cloud that looks like a chicken or something, and instead, all I see is a photo of the new french fry cooker at McDonalds.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:39:25 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
Yea, but the fries are HUMONGOUS!
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:43:26 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: Dumpster Baby
To: SunkenCiv
Obviously some folks cannot be left alone with an Erector set nor a Leggo set.
I doubt they’d be safe even with Lincon Logs.
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posted on
12/18/2011 8:54:00 AM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Dumpster Baby
How many people here even recognize the word “Heathkit”?
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:00:47 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring; Dumpster Baby
How many people here even recognize the word Heathkit?Got mine in 1971 ;0)
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:05:14 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
To: DuncanWaring
I do. Am I ancient, or was I precocious?
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:05:54 AM PST
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
To: reagan_fanatic
Don’t super size the fries.
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:07:18 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Dumpster Baby
Heathkits.
Good old days.
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posted on
12/18/2011 9:07:43 AM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: dadgum
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12/18/2011 9:11:02 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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