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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #510 on: December 12, 2011, 02:03:52 pm »
Hahaha, looks to be the exact same snow I had on my freewebs website back when I was like 14.
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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #511 on: December 12, 2011, 02:52:00 pm »
The fact that a universe exists instead of some kind of meta-stable quantum foam suggests that somewhere there was some kind of instability...

TBH I was kinda hoping for there to be no Higgs, and to get all exited about ripping up the standard model and coming up with something better, or one of its competitors. I really like Heim theory, but a 125/126 Gev Higgs would negate much of it. That and the methods used to establish it are a little shaky. Still, its probably this generations great moment in Physics, and as such I am contractually obliged to get all worked up and happy. Bet none of my students give a shit though. :)
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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #512 on: December 12, 2011, 03:57:37 pm »
What does finding the Higgs boson mean for practical science?
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« Reply #513 on: December 12, 2011, 04:01:09 pm »
Not a whole lot. Yet.
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« Reply #514 on: December 12, 2011, 04:04:12 pm »
Okay. But will knowing it allow the practical science to start being done, or is it still firmly in the realm of the theoreticians?
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« Reply #515 on: December 12, 2011, 04:10:39 pm »
Its in the hands of the theoreticians for now. We would need some as of yet unimagined technology to start truly interacting with or manipulating these things in a practical sense - kind of how although the victorians had some idea about electrons, they couldnt comprehend microprocessors.
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« Reply #516 on: December 12, 2011, 04:12:38 pm »
Okay. Well, when you invent that technology, you come and tell me.
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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #517 on: December 12, 2011, 04:15:52 pm »
We won't even know what this particle really is or what function it serves until tomorrow; as that is when the results will be released.
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« Reply #518 on: December 12, 2011, 04:17:54 pm »
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Okay. Well, when you invent that technology, you come and tell me.

Some kid of singularity inducing gun be ok with you?
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« Reply #519 on: December 12, 2011, 04:22:43 pm »
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Okay. Well, when you invent that technology, you come and tell me.

Some kid of singularity inducing gun be ok with you?

As I have no understanding whatsoever of the science in question...

Probably!
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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #520 on: December 12, 2011, 04:24:27 pm »
"singularity inducing gun" = black hole cannon.

I want one.
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« Reply #521 on: December 12, 2011, 04:27:09 pm »
Woo! My orders have doubled in moments. Now all I need to do is somehow find a way to make lots of Higgs bosons, target them, accelerate them, and in large quantities. The Higgs field should take care of the rest.
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« Reply #522 on: December 12, 2011, 04:28:12 pm »
Just remember kids: Under a certain size, you can create a black hole on Earth without destroying the entire planet because of Hawking radiation. And if you can find a way to artificially produce Hawking radiation, perhaps even larger than that....
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« Reply #523 on: December 12, 2011, 04:30:55 pm »
No more need to store radioactive waste or carbon dioxide! Just toss it in the black hole and be done with it!
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Re: CERN has accidentally the everything.
« Reply #524 on: December 12, 2011, 04:36:02 pm »
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