Higgs Boson may have been found.

[star-warrior]

Just heard on the news.

BBC News - Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

Cern scientists revealing results from the Large Hadron Collider have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass.

Both of the two Higgs-hunting experiments at the LHC on the Franco-Swiss border have reached a level of certainty worthy of a "discovery".

More work will be needed to be certain that what they see is a Higgs, however.

Both teams claimed they had seen a "bump" in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at about 125-126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) - about 130 times heavier than the proton at the heart of every atom.

The results announced at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) were met with thunderous applause.

 

[Ram]

Can someone please state the significant of the discovery in simpler terms? It's for the other JUBbers, not for me. I totally know what this is about. The other JUBbers... they need help. Yeah, Higgs Boson, yeah love that dude. I think I seen one of two of his movies...yeah

 

[ChickenGuy]

Both of the two Higgs-hunting experiments at the LHC on the Franco-Swiss border have reached a level of certainty worthy of a "discovery".

I passed right by it just a few weeks ago! The place where my dad's friends put me up for a few days was just a few miles away from it! The CERN laboratories and the LHC are right on the main road to Geneva. I saw all the buildings while passing by. The 'circuit' of the Collider runs underground through that very area. If I had time, I could have visited inside the place, and gone on a guided tour.

As for the Higgs boson, I'm not really that bothered. They already knew about it for decades. It's not like something unexpected or groundbreaking has been discovered, it's just a confirmation of existing theories and models.

 

[voyager1994]

In plain simple language please!!!

 

[vacancy3]

big-bang theory will use this in an episode next season i bet....love that show

 

[Telstra]

In plain simple language please!!!

from a non scientist,
Higgs Boson particles are the smallest thing which they move in and out of existence at the same time.

oh, that might be something from nothing because nothing is unstable

 

[ChickenGuy]

In plain simple language please!!!

There's something about the quarks having 'spin' or 'charge' of negative or positive 1/3 or 2/3 depending on which you're talking about, and three of them making a neutron or proton which will consequently have spin or charge of either 1 or 0 or -1. All particles have 'opposite' counterparts. Electrons surround the nucleus of the atom which is protons and neutrons. That's all I know without reading up on it.

 

[Telstra]

There's something about the quarks having 'spin' or 'charge' of negative or positive 1/3 or 2/3 depending on which you're talking about, and three of them making a neutron or proton which will consequently have spin or charge of either 1 or 0 or -1. All particles have 'opposite' counterparts. Electrons surround the nucleus of the atom which is protons and neutrons. That's all I know without reading up on it.

That is not a simple language.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Quarks Gay Bar! Up, Charm, Top, Bottom, Down, Strange.

 

[HunterM]

Can someone please state the significant of the discovery in simpler terms?

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thankyou

 

[oakpope]

I have worked on the Higgs Boson when I was in my 5th year in university in Strasbourg (we have a particle accelerator there).
But it's so far in the past I forget pretty much all

It's really not why it is this important that they found it, it's more that if they hadn't find it it would have cause the main theory in physics to collapse.

One important thing is that this boson is the link between particles and their masses. The messenger particle for electromagnetic phenomena is the photon. To say way too simply : an electron knows that there is a proton with an opposed charge of electricity in its vicinity is because they exchange photons within an extreme short period of time. It would be the same thing for the boson.

What's weird to imagine is that proton and neutron etc exchange boson particles that are way more massive than themselves

TLDR : the discovery is an important validating stone in the main physical theory in the world. It is necessary to have this to go a further step towards the Master Goal : the unifying theory which would explain all physical phenomena with an unique theory.

 

[HunterM]

 

[FPNY]

I thought Higgs boson made lawn mower engines...

 

[star-warrior]

I have worked on the Higgs Boson when I was in my 5th year in university in Strasbourg (we have a particle accelerator there).
But it's so far in the past I forget pretty much all

It's really not why it is this important that they found it, it's more that if they hadn't find it it would have cause the main theory in physics to collapse.

One important thing is that this boson is the link between particles and their masses. The messenger particle for electromagnetic phenomena is the photon. To say way too simply : an electron knows that there is a proton with an opposed charge of electricity in its vicinity is because they exchange photons within an extreme short period of time. It would be the same thing for the boson.

What's weird to imagine is that proton and neutron etc exchange boson particles that are way more massive than themselves

TLDR : the discovery is an important validating stone in the main physical theory in the world. It is necessary to have this to go a further step towards the Master Goal : the unifying theory which would explain all physical phenomena with an unique theory.

Well put.

The theoretical physics behind the prediction of the Higgs Boson looks sound now that the prediction and detection of the particle are complemented. This is all kinds of wonderful, from being a human achievement of logical reasoning, to the advancement in science, knowledge and understanding of our universe. I guess the LHC was worth it in the end.

 

[oakpope]

Sorry to not have been more clear

This discovery is a little like the same as if the remains of the common ancestor of human and monkeys was found, for the biology theory of evolution, but for modern physics. I hope I'm making sense

 

[FPNY]

How is this going to change our day to day lives?

 

[bankside]

How is this going to change our day to day lives?

Well, a working knowledge of electrons gave us electricity. A working knowledge of neutrons gave us cancer treatments. Maybe a working knowledge of the Higgs boson will give us antigravity.

Mostly it affects our lives because smart people figured out a little more about how the universe works, and now we know too.

 

[pat grimshaw]

(I'm thinking of Higgs' bosom)

 

[star-warrior]

(I'm thinking of Higgs' bosom)

You could convince him to take his shirt off for you.

 

[Ram]

If we are talking about Higgs' bosom, I doubt it would be difficult to find it.