If they found the Higgs particle, it would be a really, really big deal!
I believe this field is called "gravity". Now, where's my Nobel prize?
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But the main thing that needs to be pointed out is that this new accelerator has cost a bazillion Euros to build, so of COURSE they’ll be suggesting that it may find God.
(In a particle, no less)
Otherwise they blow their cover.
May the Force be with you?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Force is an energy field. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the Galaxy together.”
Or something to that effect. :)
Look out the window Mr. Higgs, do you see creation, every creation has a creator, and our Heavenly Creator is the one Who gives mass to the universe and makes live possible. I rest my case.
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Alternate headline: “Old guy about to die is sure validity of life’s work will soon be confirmed”
May the Higgs boson be with you. Seriously, it would be impressive to find the gravity particle. A long time coming.
A couple more interesting articles written for laymen about the Large Hadron Collider:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331122534.htm
And these guys have an interesting theory on its potential.
Two men have theorized the Collider could destroy all life on earth (but not to worry it’s just a “small chance of annihilation of the planet”).
“Fight to save Earth from tiny black hole”
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/fight-to-save-earth-from-tiny-black-hole/2008/04/01/1206850910851.html
” The Higgs Boson exists not” - Hoseya
Oh, so now it's "something" collided with "something else" and exploded, turning into everything?
Where did those somethings come from in the middle of nothing? Even more fascinating, is how could TWO somethings be moving at incredible speeds in this endless nothingness?
What put them in motion, and more fascinating still,how did they manage against all infinity odds, to be on the exact same path and collide with each other, expoding and turning into everything?
""By the word of God the heavens were made, their whole array by the breath of his mouth...He spoke and it was created. He commanded and there it stood." (Ps.33:6-9).
Still seems to be the best explanation.
"Creation is maintained by God's rulings" (Ps.119:91)
The God particle.
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Super Strings” “Quantum Physics” “Zero Point Field” etc etc - this guy should get out more
I can’t help but think of the old Isaac Asimov short story about the guy who travels from inhabited planet to inhabited planet in hopes of catching up with Jesus. Upon arrival at each planet he discovers that Jesus was there but has already left, and he just missed him....
Isn't that because they are getting smaller? After all, we now think that the neutrino has mass.
“It’s time to go, Higgs”
Way back when, T.V. had these marvelous shows on like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and some smaller productions; one evening my sister and I were watching one where the main character was locked in a hotel room and a disembodied voice kept saying, “It’s time to go, Higgens” as an incessant knock occurred menacingly on the secured door.
Higgins, a worn, nondescript man caught between 55 and 70 stood frantic inside his suffocating confines, made mad by the knocking and the constant demands, he ran first here and there, taking turns holding his ears to keep out the voice and what it portended while sweating profusely and growing more fitful as the ticking clock counted down.
He began to shout and call for the intruder to go away; he turned up the radio; he talked first to himself then to the fear; in his panic he paced back and forth and up and down until finally he crumpled to the floor and then lay there in a heap.
The intruder rattled the door and knew that his prey had surrendered; with the crack of metal and wood renting the sudden silence the door burst forth and in walked two men - the superintendant called from his furnace duty and a very confused and apparently scared taxi cab driver in a floppy hat.
They stood there for a moment and the driver bent down and placed his cheek against the lifeless body and said that he was dead.
The last scene shows the coroner and his aides preparing the body’s removal as the cameras pans in on the form in the coroner’s hand:
DEATH CERTIFICATE CITY OF NEW YORK
CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart Attack - died of apparent fright
It is the ultimate stretch of the ego to call something the “God particle” and then to claim you found it.
I’ve stated on past threads that I personally don’t care what particles they find. I tend to think that as long as they look, they will find new and more exotic ones.
Does it really matter if the universe is made of protons and electrons and bosons or whatever or if the universe is made of Legos?
My theory is that the universe is made of legos. And what’s interesting is not what a particular lego is all about, but what happens when you put a bunch of legos in a bag, shake it up, and pour it out.
No doubt learning about the building blocks is important. But if you have a standard brick, you can use it to build a firehouse, or a doghouse, or use it to line your sidewalk, or even a fireplace.
We don’t have the mathematics or the physics yet (or the computational power or the epistemology or heuristics) to actually make a determination.
But to decide to invent something before you find it and then call it the “God particle” like it was the Oracle at Delphi or something seems to me to be one of the shallowest things I ever heard.
I remember my mother, who was born in 1911, telling me how when she was a young child was taught that the atom couldn’t be broken.
I imagine that people who believed it could be were branded as anti-believers and Satanists, much as they are on this thread.
We all know how THAT turned out, and without it America might very well have fallen.
Ironic, America, blessed by God, saved by Satanists.
This may very well turn out the same way.
He’s just thinking of his own life, that is, the death part of it.