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[Loud Whispers]

Just saw this during the afternoon.

Teh sciences, it's awesome.

[Heron TSG]

I cant wait for the applications that this new understanding will give us. What if you can make a meta materiel that can interact with the higgs field in novel ways?

It could be done if the material happened to be really massive.  Get a giant blob of it and call it a gravity generator!

Now just to find out whether it has a spin of 0 or 2. (Or -3, -2, -1, 1, or 3, but that would be really wacky.)

[Hanslanda]

Go science, go science... Now how can we weaponize it?

[Starver]

Inertial dampening/enhancing fields, through altering the relative degrees way an object's/region's matter 'feels' its mass in static/kinetic situations?

Totally excluding the Higgs field would... lemme see... well, everything would fly apart, at the slightest opportunity, I think...

BICBW.  It might be fun to watch, though, whatever happens.

[Hanslanda]

Ah, Bay12, you never fail to turn anything into a monstrous weapon of mass destruction.

[Starver]

And somewhat in the (primary scientific) noun sense, rather than the adjectival one...

[Scelly9]

Science, I love you so.

[Karlito]

Go science, go science... Now how can we weaponize it?

I'd rather not think about it, considering the other weapons particle physics has developed.

[Hanslanda]

That is a good point. :/  Hopefully they will use it in a good way instead of for evil. But people are only human, so we can only wait and see.

[Phmcw]

The smarts peoples think we won't be able to use it in any direct ways.
I think this is a disappointment, the worst thing that could happen in the we find the higgs boson, find it is conform to the predictions and nothing else.

That would mean we did all that for pretty much nothing, sadly. We need to find where our models fails.

[Moghjubar]

Thus, I declare today a SCIENCE holiday! (even though the discovery and data was over a period of time, at least today also has the benefit of being July 4th, which means EXPLOSIONS in the USA!)

[Karlito]

You know, I can't help but wonder how much earlier this discovery could have been made if the American Government had a better commitment to science.

[Leafsnail]

Well I think that's the Theory of Everything _{except gravity} pretty much finished now.  Knowing fundamental particle physics could maybe help nuclear energy of the future (since it's a lot easier to make discoveries when you understand the stuff you're working with).

[Starver]

That would mean we did all that for pretty much nothing, sadly.

Well, there's been other things done with the equipment as well...  The creation (and confinement) of full-blown atoms of anti-matter, for example.

And everybody likes Antimatter!

(Now, let's get the CP-symmetry violations tied down...)

You know, I can't help but wonder how much earlier this discovery could have been made if the American Government had a better commitment to science.

You're a young country, only recently got your own flat and had to work out which college courses you were going to attend...

[Siquo]

Colleague: They found it!
Siquo: Well, for certain levels of "found". In QM there's levels at which the probability of it existing reaches almost certain, and then it's considered to be "found".
C: Well it's still awesome!
S: (Oh this is going to be good) Why?
C: Because it does the mass! And now we can use the negative! We'll be flying in a few years!
S: *mental facepalm* *Confidence in colleague just went to -10* Well, they've got three years until my skateboard.
C: *laughs* Exactly.
*Confidence just went back up to normal levels, because he knew instantly what I was referring to*