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Is Particle Physics About to Crack Wide Open?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/is-particle-physics-about-to-crack-wide-open/ ^ | June 13, 2016 | Michele Redi

Posted on 06/13/2016 1:30:08 PM PDT by samtheman

This is by far the most exciting thing that has happened in particle physics over the last three decades. If this hint of new physics is confirmed—something that could happen within just a few weeks, or possibly even within days—it is difficult to state the importance of such a discovery. It would be bigger than the detection of the Higgs boson, which was just confirmation of what was already known.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: physics; stringtheory
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Is this hype, or is there something big going on?
1 posted on 06/13/2016 1:30:08 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/is-particle-physics-about-to-crack-wide-open/


2 posted on 06/13/2016 1:30:30 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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I won’t believe it until Sheldon mentions it on The Big Bang Theory.


3 posted on 06/13/2016 1:31:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: samtheman

Get Sheldon and Leonard on the phone.


4 posted on 06/13/2016 1:32:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: samtheman

My guess?

Protons, neutrons and electrons are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.

That’s my guess.


5 posted on 06/13/2016 1:33:12 PM PDT by fatboy
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So what did Higgs boson tell us, and how did it change the world or the hearts of people? And what is particle physics going to do?

I always shrug my shoulders at this stuff. They think they’re so brilliant and they’re only discovering what was created. Best to pursue the Creator rather than the creation.


6 posted on 06/13/2016 1:35:53 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: samtheman

What about Wave Physics? Statistical Physics?


7 posted on 06/13/2016 1:36:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaa.....)
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To: samtheman

Is globull warming cause the particles to become hotter?


8 posted on 06/13/2016 1:36:32 PM PDT by sagar
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To: fatboy

Protons, neurons and electrons will no longer use separate bathrooms.


9 posted on 06/13/2016 1:38:13 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: samtheman

Translation
We need a trillion more dollars to fund a whole decade of new bullshit research that has produced not a single thing for humanity in the last 50 years.


10 posted on 06/13/2016 1:38:40 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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" It would be bigger than the detection of the Higgs boson, which was just confirmation of what was already known theorized by many scientists."
11 posted on 06/13/2016 1:38:57 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: JudyinCanada

I saw Miss Higgs Bosom when I was in high school.


12 posted on 06/13/2016 1:39:40 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: fatboy

I swear, this stuff they study is half science and half made up imaginary crap.


13 posted on 06/13/2016 1:40:28 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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To: samtheman

Dilithium


14 posted on 06/13/2016 1:40:38 PM PDT by bigbob
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“ATLAS has seen the bump too”

Good Grief!

Everybody knows ATLAS “Shrugged”....

It was no “bump”.


15 posted on 06/13/2016 1:41:35 PM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: JudyinCanada
Best to pursue the Creator rather than the creation.

One Honors the Creator by
Honoring His Creation

Knowing more about the Nature of Creation gives
more knowledge of the Mind of The Creator

It's a matter of perspective

16 posted on 06/13/2016 1:42:03 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: bigtoona

We need a trillion more dollars to fund a whole decade of new bullshit research that has produced not a single thing for humanity in the last 50 years.


I just did a search on “particle physics spinoff”. I found a lot of spin, not much spinoff.

And here’s an undated answer that you have to pay money to see: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0305-4624/17/2/301/pdf


17 posted on 06/13/2016 1:43:25 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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If the observations are confirmed, it will be revolutionary. This could mean nothing less than the fall of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM), which has passed every experimental test thrown at it since it was first put together over four decades ago.


Settled science just got unsettled -or- the Standard Model has fallen and can’t get up.


18 posted on 06/13/2016 1:44:14 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: samtheman
They've invented the Flux Capacitor


19 posted on 06/13/2016 1:44:53 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: bigtoona
We need a trillion more dollars to fund a whole decade of new bullshit research that has produced not a single thing for humanity in the last 50 years.

At one time pure scientific research actually lead to worthwhile discoveries. Now I don't know what the heck they're doing. I don't even think they know what the heck they're doing.

Consider string theory. It is THE hot topic in physics research today. Yet no verifiable evidence of strings has been found, and no applications have been proposed. So we had better double the string theory budget!

20 posted on 06/13/2016 1:45:00 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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