O/T: Higgs boson found today?

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Offline Jim R.

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on: July 04, 2012, 03:18:57 PM

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Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 03:23:12 PM
I have been following the news from the LHC for years with my math students.  I am very excited about the recent announcements.

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Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 03:24:47 PM
It's very amazing.  A great day for particle physics.
It's also very cool that Peter Higgs was at CERN for the announcement


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Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 04:12:05 PM
wow, Interestingly scientists have also speculated that further research will allow them to disrupt the associated higgs-boson field, the first practical use of which will be to lower the impedence of the Crack to allow use with 32 ohm headphones! 

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Reply #4 on: July 04, 2012, 04:36:40 PM
cool to see fellow bottleheads are as nerdy as me. This stuff blows my mind!

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Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 06:00:41 PM
Quote from: Sh7eleven on July 04, 2012, 04:12:05 PM
wow, Interestingly scientists have also speculated that further research will allow them to disrupt the associated higgs-boson field, the first practical use of which will be to lower the impedence of the Crack to allow use with 32 ohm headphones! 

That will only work when hooked up to the new Bottlehead tube buffered particle accelerator

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Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 10:26:34 PM
Good one Debra!

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Reply #7 on: July 05, 2012, 07:33:15 PM
Quote from: debk on July 04, 2012, 06:00:41 PM
Quote from: Sh7eleven on July 04, 2012, 04:12:05 PM
wow, Interestingly scientists have also speculated that further research will allow them to disrupt the associated higgs-boson field, the first practical use of which will be to lower the impedence of the Crack to allow use with 32 ohm headphones! 

That will only work when hooked up to the new Bottlehead tube buffered particle accelerator

Tubes ARE particle accelerators! Just a few EV short of CERN....

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Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 07:56:13 PM
A few TeV maybe?


Quote from: John Swenson on July 05, 2012, 07:33:15 PM

Tubes ARE particle accelerators! Just a few EV short of CERN....

John S.


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Reply #9 on: July 06, 2012, 04:06:28 AM
I dropped my Higgs boson the other day.  I was hoping someone would find it.

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Reply #10 on: July 11, 2012, 12:51:29 PM
DAM! Now we have to rethink our thinking about what we thought. I'm stickin' with old school, where Pluto is still a planet 'n stuff like that. My world was flat 'till Gundry screwed it up.


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Reply #11 on: July 11, 2012, 01:01:14 PM
My favorite Higgs joke so far -

 "The Higgs Boson walks into a Catholic Church. Priest says "What are you doing here?" HB says "You can't have mass without me."

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Reply #12 on: July 11, 2012, 01:15:00 PM
You guys are funny!

Nonetheless, as a guy who cut his engineering teeth in high energy physics research, this is totally fascinating to me and I have a very real sense of what things must have been like at CERN and for all the scientists, engineers and tecs involved.

I've heard it said that our scientific breaktrhoughs are happening at a very accelerated pace these days -- probably due in most part to a polymerization effect of knowledge building, but also because of increased computer processing, cloud computing, etc.  It wasn't but a few months ago that somebody found something faster than light and thus rendered the theory of relativity more or less invalid.

Maybe one day we'll know why different audio cables sound like they do :-).

-- Jim

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Reply #13 on: July 11, 2012, 03:17:37 PM
Jim,

You made me laugh.  My wife said, "What?"  I had to explain.  She has a math degree, stuff I didn't want to know about.  She knows about cables being different and because she hasn't been around stuff in the 115dB volume level I ask her to listen for me when I'm making comparisons.  She often says the same thing I do.


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Reply #14 on: July 12, 2012, 05:07:25 AM
wow - I want a wife like that!

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