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

[samtheman]

Is this hype, or is there something big going on?

[samtheman]

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

[Leaning Right]

I won’t believe it until Sheldon mentions it on The Big Bang Theory.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Get Sheldon and Leonard on the phone.

[fatboy]

My guess?

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

That’s my guess.

[JudyinCanada]

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.

[Paladin2]

What about Wave Physics? Statistical Physics?

[sagar]

Is globull warming cause the particles to become hotter?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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

[bigtoona]

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.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

" It would be bigger than the detection of the Higgs boson, which was just confirmation of what was already known theorized by many scientists."

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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

[bigtoona]

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

[bigbob]

Dilithium

[G Larry]

“ATLAS has seen the bump too”

Good Grief!

Everybody knows ATLAS “Shrugged”....

It was no “bump”.

[HangnJudge]

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

[samtheman]

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.

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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

[Flick Lives]

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.

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

[Mr. K]

They've invented the Flux Capacitor

[Leaning Right]

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!