The God particle

Originally posted by whodey
Ok then, for all you God phobic people out there we will begin calling it the "whodey" particle. As for all you whodey phobic people out there.....well....tough luck!! 😠

Why call it anything religious at all? What about the Allah particle, Buddha particle, or why not Satan particle? Or are we Allah-phobic, Buddha-phobic, or just a little bit satan-phobic, are we?

The whodey particle perhaps is a good name, as is the Fabian particle, but I think the Higgs particle is the best name, and is also used, because he, Peter Higgs born 1929, mentionned the hypothetical particle as early as 1964 and fits nicely into the standard model.

So why religion at all, concerning this elusive particle?

Originally posted by FabianFnas

So why religion at all, concerning this elusive particle?

Because 'the Higgs boson' doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

You know how the media operates, don't you? Perhaps you should write a strongly worded letter to the editor of every publication that uses the offensive term 'God particle'.

Originally posted by FabianFnas

The whodey particle perhaps is a good name, as is the Fabian particle, but I think the Higgs particle is the best name, and is also used, because he, Peter Higgs born 1929, mentionned the hypothetical particle as early as 1964 and fits nicely into the standard model.

Nope, its the whodey particle or noth'in at all. 😠

Originally posted by whodey
Stephen Hakkins has bet 100 dollars that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.

In the most complex scientific experiment ever undertaken, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on Wednesday, accelerating sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light before smashing them together. ...[text shortened]... and has made in the past? In fact, I bet he doesn't even tip at restaurants and such.

He will win the bet because because the first collisions are not planned until about a year from now.

Well now I have heard it all:
It seems a teenage girl in India has committed suicide because she feared the collider would cause a black hole that swallows the world:
http://www.physorg.com/news140327173.html

Originally posted by whodey
Nope, its the whodey particle or noth'in at all. 😠

Alright then, 'the woodey particle'... Better than 'the god particle' after all...

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well now I have heard it all:
It seems a teenage girl in India has committed suicide because she feared the collider would cause a black hole that swallows the world:
http://www.physorg.com/news140327173.html

She wasn't burned to death was she? You know those brides in India often have mysterious accidents in the kitchen and are burned alive and then someone collects their dowry. I saw a documentary about it the other night and it seems that there are thousands of such "accidents" in the kitchen every year in India.....but I digress.

It seems this whole "end of the world" with the coming of the antichrist, most commonly known as the LHC is starting to get out just a little out of control.

The people spreading this nonsense about te LHC should just shut their mouths, because most of them don't even know what they're talking about. I read in the news that some people have actually suggested the appearance of a magnetic monopole!!!!

Originally posted by dannyUchiha
It seems this whole "end of the world" with the coming of the antichrist, most commonly known as the LHC is starting to get out just a little out of control.

The people spreading this nonsense about te LHC should just shut their mouths, because most of them don't even know what they're talking about. I read in the news that some people have actually suggested the appearance of a magnetic monopole!!!!

The three concerns about the LHC is creation of (1) black holes that will eventually consume the Earth, (2) strange matter that can turn every other matter into strangelets, and (3) monopoles that will make protons unstable.

CERN are taking this concerns very seriously, written lots of educational documents about this. And I think this is good. They have to rethink about their strategy about how to handle the public.

Science is not always safe.
In virus research, when handling lethal virus, scientists has proposed experiments that are very dangerous for the humanity if they (the viruses, not the scientists) are let out in the free.
We know incidents in nuclear activities, radioactivity let out to the public.
...and in other areas.

But the activities in CERN are not hidden out of the public. They are very open about it. It's not a military facility. I think they are acting responsibly.

So, continue, CERN, go find some Higgs particles!

You're right, anyone that has an actual concern about this problem should try and read more, get to know the facts and separate themselves from fiction freaks that think that just because something ocurred in a sci-fi movie, it's going to happen here.

I'm glad that science has advanced the way it did, and I'm completely against ignorant people trying to push down the few that actually worry about the good of mankind.

Originally posted by sonhouse
[b]. How bout the BS that went on, law suites even, about how the collider was going to destroy the earth by making a black hole that eats up the planet?

I thought I had witnessed this today but soon realized it was just USC beating up on my Buckeyes. :'(

Update everyone. The whole project is put on hold due to a faulty transformer. I hate it when that happens. 😠

Higgs boson sounds like some kind of medieval mariner,

Actually the reason I came on this thread was to tell everyone it was busted. but seems I was beaten to it. 🙂

Not that I'm glad it was busted.

I thought Hawkins bet on it creating a miniature black hole though? Mind you... if it did he'd never have to pay out.... He really is a clever bloke!

Can anyone clear this up for me.
I keep seeing news articles about the LHC making two contradictory claims.
1. The reactions created by the LHC will be the first time such conditions have existed since the Big Bang.
2. The experiment is perfectly safe because particles of equivalent energy strike the earths atmosphere quite regularly.
Which is it?

Originally posted by PBE6
I wonder how long it will take for any discoveries/non-discoveries to be reported? After a quick Google search, the most concrete thing I've found is that they turned on the LHC and it didn't blow up.

Well, it didn't blow up but it did melt. It's outta commision for 2 months for repairs.

A conspiracy guy might suggest this was done intentionally to save us all from the Armeggedon this thing is suggested to potentially create.


Thank you Jebus!