azatoth Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 .. and all of the sudden everybody on my Facebook is interested in physics. Today they act like Stephen Hawking, fucking ridiculous .. they are fucking dimwits !!!!. Anyways, this is a great humankind archivement and i bet physicist are really excited about the discovery. The commoners will have to wait a decade or two to see any technologies that might spawn from this research. They mentioned in the press conference that there's already been a tons of R&D when they built the collider and spin-offs from this research is probably on the way soon. To build a state-of-the-art particle collider isn't something you build from parts you get from the local hardware store, you need to plan, develop and engineer completely new technology and materials that will meet extreme quality standards and precision. Not to mention the computing infrastructure needed to handle the petabytes of data that is collected and processed. People seem to forget that part of the equation and think that the only usable results are these weird particles they are trying find. Someone asked about the return of the investments and the director said that for every one euro invested has returned 3.5 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Very exciting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Very exciting Oh right, cool, thanks! Could you please let me know what I should be excited about so I can be excited too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 the possibility of new physics transcending what we understand about the universe today, possibly leading to some kind of unified field theory leading to the manipulation of matter at the quantum scale, which in turn could lead to a large amount of the traditional science-fiction tropes (replicators, deep space travel, free-energy etc) being realised within a few decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Could though? I know I'm cynical and all. But I don't see any hoverboards yet, so I'm reserving excitement. It's more likely we'll tear the fabric of reality and destroy everything in the process. 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Can anyone point me out a couple of useful links - readings or other, but i am more capable of extracting information from images - that can give me a deeper understanding of all this? I can understand how the Higgs boson is the particle that gives mass to other particles, which seems to be the main discovery here, but i still need to understand it from a pratical point of view. How can this be applied in real life? What will or could this change from now on, if confirmed to be true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pyrjf/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Super lurker ultra V12 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 i miss babar neutrinos don't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 the possibility of new physics transcending what we understand about the universe today, possibly leading to some kind of unified field theory leading to the manipulation of matter at the quantum scale, which in turn could lead to a large amount of the traditional science-fiction tropes (replicators, deep space travel, free-energy etc) being realised within a few decades. If it does't happen in my lifetime i don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 possibility of higgs boson: 12 page thread on watmm boson discovered: watmm stops caring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 The possibility of a FTL particle was more exciting because it would shatter our current knowledge of physics. Discovering the Higgs Boson just confirms what we already know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 i miss babar neutrinos don't fucking lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 i wish i was smart enough to understand any of this. quantum physics is just mind blowing when you think about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 This announcement is just fucking massive in its implications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 133 times more massive than science has ever been before I feel excite...but I'm still not sure what it's about. All I know is, in your FACE gravity, we saw your junk. And called it God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 So what happens to general relativity now? Is it now incorrect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 what if they discover new particle, called...SUPER particle??? just kidding Aprail Fool!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 So what happens to general relativity now? Is it now incorrect? Has nothing to do with this. That said, getting GR to work with QM is the next nut to crack, among hundreds of other things we have no clue about. But it's a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 What the show Universe on youtube, it's a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 hokum posted this earlier this year, it's really informative if you're interested in thinkin about star stuff http://forum.watmm.com/topic/73497-astronomy-addicts/page__hl__astronomy the whole video series: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 this is what it's all about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFKvgo7q6lw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Through the Wormhole is great for explaining things in layman's terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 this is what it's all about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFKvgo7q6lw i was thinking about posting this. but you beat me to it. lol.you guys do realize that this really doesn't change anything. the whole point of physics is to challenge what we think is true now. Hence why most shit is Theories and not laws. Physics is all about change. so really this is no big deal. it was going to happen at one point or another. we will still use Einsteins equations and theories cause they are pretty spot on. and you know when Einstein made his claims it didn't really change anything at the time either. it was just another stepping stone. we used it to progress, not change anything. Physics is a straight line. when we prove an old theory "wrong" we don't go back and change everything that was ever written about it. we simply continue forward with the new found knowledge. the real "change" that this discovery will make will happen 20-30 years down the line. aka, it advances, it doesn't change. thats the whole point of Science. if it wasn't then we'd still be banging stones with our faces. Will this make Prometheus better?no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 It would be nice if you'd stop writing as if you're a spokesperson for science... "physics is a straight line," wat? Not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 It would be nice if you'd stop writing as if you're a spokesperson for science... "physics is a straight line," wat? Not really. im a fucking engineer, i cant help it. loland what i mean, is that we don't go back and say "hey, all your shit that you did was pointless and useless now." if it wasn't for the discoveries back then we wouldn't be where we are today. basically, we can only go forward. never backward. like the Edison quote “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”. even though he failed so many times it was never a step back. only forward. hopefully that makes more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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