Higgs Bosun particle likely discovered!

[The_Squid]

Great news for physicists everywhere!! And congrats to the Canadian physicists at TRIUMF.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/04/higgs-boson-god-particle-discovery.html

Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher in Switzerland say they have discovered what could be the long-sought Higgs boson, a subatomic particle dubbed the "God particle" because it is believed to have originated during the Big Bang and helped shape the subatomic particles that make up all matter in the universe.

[Bonam]

Yep, cool discovery, though hardly unexpected. The data has been slowly building towards this point, and numerous stories have come out over the past several months as the bump in the data representing the Higgs boson became more and more statistically significant. Regardless, my buddies back at TRIUMF are celebrating for sure.

Personally, I'm more interested in any insights that the LHC may be able to gain about precisely how the Higgs bosons and the Higgs field interact with other particles in the standard model. Their interaction with the Higgs is, according to the standard model, the origin of mass for all other particles. If we find ways to manipulate the way in which particles such as ordinary matter or photons interact with the Higgs field, that could potentially lead to some very interesting applications.

[Guest Manny]

Yep, cool discovery, though hardly unexpected. The data has been slowly building towards this point, and numerous stories have come out over the past several months as the bump in the data representing the Higgs boson became more and more statistically significant. Regardless, my buddies back at TRIUMF are celebrating for sure.

Personally, I'm more interested in any insights that the LHC may be able to gain about precisely how the Higgs bosons and the Higgs field interact with other particles in the standard model. Their interaction with the Higgs is, according to the standard model, the origin of mass for all other particles. If we find ways to manipulate the way in which particles such as ordinary matter or photons interact with the Higgs field, that could potentially lead to some very interesting applications.

Thank you, professor Julius Sumner Miller.

[Moonlight Graham]

We are that much closer to a Flux Capacitor and a Holodeck.

[Bonam]

We are that much closer to a Flux Capacitor and a Holodeck.

I really want a holodeck. A system that recreates the visual and auditory experience of the holodeck is probably quite realistic within the next 20 years or so. However the tactile experience seems implausible with foreseeable technology. We would probably reach the ability to directly interface with the human brain and make you think you are having that experience earlier than the full tactile holodeck could be physically created.

[Wild Bill]

I really want a holodeck. A system that recreates the visual and auditory experience of the holodeck is probably quite realistic within the next 20 years or so. However the tactile experience seems implausible with foreseeable technology. We would probably reach the ability to directly interface with the human brain and make you think you are having that experience earlier than the full tactile holodeck could be physically created.

Yeah, before we could have the tactile sensations we would have to invent tractor and the converse, pressor beams.

Implants or something similar to RF induction is more likely in the foreseeable future.