PromoTheRobot Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) LINK Still not entirely clear how the Higgs Boson works but it's supposed to impart mass, essentially making the universe matter. PTR Edited July 2, 2012 by PromoTheRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 call me crazy but an organization called European Organization for Nuclear Research and abbreviates it as CERN doesn't hold much credibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optometric Insight Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! great insight, bucko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! I think someone is working on the cancer thing. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicBills Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! Because there's nothing beneficial to learn from studying the origin of the universe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optometric Insight Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 great insight, bucko Is that sarcasm or did I actually come up with something insightful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Avenger Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! As my HS physics teacher always used to say, "Yeah - most of the stuff we study isn't ever going to get you better toothpaste...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! You're right. Those physicists haven't done a damn thing for cancer treatment! Though I believe they're working on a cure for spherical chickens in a vacuum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Is that sarcasm or did I actually come up with something insightful? Not yet, keep trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! ?? So all scientific resources, spanning all scientific disciplines should go to...cancer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! Haven't heard of Chemotherapy or radiation treatments huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 call me crazy but an organization called European Organization for Nuclear Research and abbreviates it as CERN doesn't hold much credibility English snob... http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Name-en.html The name is derived from the acronym for the French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 LINK Still not entirely clear how the Higgs Boson works but it's supposed to impart mass, essentially making the universe matter. PTR Cool. Basically...in modern physics, every physical property can be represented by a "field", that itself consists of "gauge particles" that mediate the effect of the field. Most well-known example is an electric field: two electrically charge particles feel a force from each other that's actually the recoil from a photon exchange (particle one spits out a photon, recoils in the opposite direction. Particle two receives the photon, recoils in the direction it came from. Analogous to you and me standing on skateboards, and I throw a bowling ball at you and you catch it). So the photon mediates the electromagnetic field. (And yes, my explanation isn't perfect - the "gauge" photons are "virtual", not real, and particles can recoil in all sorts of weird directions. But it's close enough, trust me.) The Higgs boson does basically the same thing for whatever field causes "mass". For a particle to have "mass", it has to exchange Higgs bosons with the "mass field" (in this case, it's easier to think of it as the field "reaching out" and grabbing whatever particle has mass. The field "reaches out" with the Higgs boson.) And again, the Higgs boson is "virtual" (i.e. doesn't really exist), until you smash **** together at high enough energies to "make it real". If you want any better an explanation than that...there's some books by Feynman that are decent (search Amazon for "Feynman QED".) But it's a really weird, counter-intuitive field...that makes perfect sense to me, which probably says a lot about why I am who I am. Haven't heard of Chemotherapy or radiation treatments huh? Medical imaging (ANY medical imaging), microsurgery... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Medical imaging (ANY medical imaging), microsurgery... The list goes on. O and my sister does cancer treatments for a living Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST MODE BABY! Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Well, they have gotten a piece of metal visible to the naked eye to be in two places at once (behave quantumly), so in the next 10-20 years should yield a lot of new insights. BTW, with regards to cancer, it's easy to reduce cancer levels. Reduce cancer levels by approximately 30% by eliminating smoking. Reduce cancer rates another 10 to 15% by eliminating processed foods. There you go. You don't even need to prove the God Particle to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Caveman Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 call me crazy but an organization called European Organization for Nuclear Research and abbreviates it as CERN doesn't hold much credibility I think it translates to CERN in European. That's a language, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Cool. Basically...in modern physics, every physical property can be represented by a "field", that itself consists of "gauge particles" that mediate the effect of the field. Most well-known example is an electric field: two electrically charge particles feel a force from each other that's actually the recoil from a photon exchange (particle one spits out a photon, recoils in the opposite direction. Particle two receives the photon, recoils in the direction it came from. Analogous to you and me standing on skateboards, and I throw a bowling ball at you and you catch it). So the photon mediates the electromagnetic field. (And yes, my explanation isn't perfect - the "gauge" photons are "virtual", not real, and particles can recoil in all sorts of weird directions. But it's close enough, trust me.) The Higgs boson does basically the same thing for whatever field causes "mass". For a particle to have "mass", it has to exchange Higgs bosons with the "mass field" (in this case, it's easier to think of it as the field "reaching out" and grabbing whatever particle has mass. The field "reaches out" with the Higgs boson.) And again, the Higgs boson is "virtual" (i.e. doesn't really exist), until you smash **** together at high enough energies to "make it real". If you want any better an explanation than that...there's some books by Feynman that are decent (search Amazon for "Feynman QED".) But it's a really weird, counter-intuitive field...that makes perfect sense to me, which probably says a lot about why I am who I am. Medical imaging (ANY medical imaging), microsurgery... My entire idea for a Science section of the board is primarily to get more posts like this out of you. Thank You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick in RaChaCha Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Here's a crazy thought; instead of spending billions of dollars and wasting time on finding a dumb particle, you work on a cure for cancer! +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Player Available Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Haven't heard of Chemotherapy or radiation treatments huh? Perhaps you're confused on the teens idea. For most cancers including my very own. Chemo & radiation is no CURE! In Fact far from it dude. Confused? Look it up and learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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