gmanyo Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Physics is like a triangle. You've got the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, and they all work together to find out more about the stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 That's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Physics is like a triangle. You've got the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, and they all work together to find out more about the stars. if this where true wouldn't it be no different than a circle since you'd just end up in the same spot again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Physics is like a triangle. You've got the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, and they all work together to find out more about the stars. I'm going to keep reading this until i can make sense out of it. I can't tell if this comment is making me happy or nauseous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Physics is surely a polyhedron, not a line, and it must always move upward, not backward, forward, not sideways, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 physics is like a tetrahedron man, it's got more dimensions than we can comprehend edit: i meant tesseract (which according to Firefox isn't a real word anyways) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Not a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Not a line. why is everyone here so 4 dimensional Edit: Meaningful input just so I won't derail this decent thread: I think this discovery is totally game changing considering that we haven't had any major breakthroughs in physics for quite some time And physics is more like a sphere, with an ever expanding radius, the scope going wider and wider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 box of chocolates yo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 box of chocolates yo no thats life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 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. sorry that makes no sense to me. the arrow of change might be directed towards the future (just like the passing of time only has one direction), but a paradigm-shift certainly can say "hey, your shit is pointless now, and in the past and had no contribution to solving the problem whatsoever". so, back to chaos please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 A lot of the great discoveries were accidental. But im not quite sure how we would have discovered a sub-atomic particle by accident yo, so I guess throwing a shit-load of money at it makes sense. Is there a list somewhere of any "practical" applications that this discovery can be used towards? Just think back to when they discovered lasers, bet they didnt think that one day they would be used to read optical discs, burns cataracts out of eyes and be used in nightclubs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 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. sorry that makes no sense to me. the arrow of change might be directed towards the future (just like the passing of time only has one direction), but a paradigm-shift certainly can say "hey, your shit is pointless now, and in the past and had no contribution to solving the problem whatsoever". so, back to chaos please. well, since you used the term Paradigm-shift ill use the man who created the term. Thomas Kuhn wrote, "Successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science." Which is what i wrote saying that changes in physics is normal. its going to happen and really shouldn't be surprising when it does.and the point i was trying to make later was that we wouldn't be where we are without those wrong theories of the past. so they can't just be discarded and forgotten. im not the greatest writer so maybe my meaning was lost along the lines somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 it was my impression that discovery of this biggs hosin' is an experimental confirmation of the standard model math. there's nothing really new other than confirming what the math already suggested, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 A lot of the great discoveries were accidental. But im not quite sure how we would have discovered a sub-atomic particle by accident yo, so I guess throwing a shit-load of money at it makes sense. Is there a list somewhere of any "practical" applications that this discovery can be used towards? Just think back to when they discovered lasers, bet they didnt think that one day they would be used to read optical discs, burns cataracts out of eyes and be used in nightclubs! Discovery of a new elementary particle is so cutting-edge science that any "practical" applications are decades into the future, and even then it's doubtful it itself has any relevance other than being part of a greater understanding on how nature works. The obvious practical applications from all this are bound to come from the engineering and technical feats that made the whole LHC possible in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 it was my impression that discovery of this biggs hosin' is an experimental confirmation of the standard model math. there's nothing really new other than confirming what the math already suggested, right? If you want to be glib about it, sure. But the fact that we now know of a new elementary particle, which perhaps is the Higgs, we can now conduct experiments and study it more closer and perhaps discover properties that no theoretical framework could have predicted, so in that sense it's a damn big deal and probably one of our lifetimes biggest scientific discoveries. It's not like we everyday find a new elementary particle that helps explain how nature works in a fundamental way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Hawking lost a $100 bet against Higgs. http://www.geekosystem.com/stephen-hawking-loses-higgs-bet/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I just saw Hawking speak (about branes) a few weeks ago and he kept dropping jokes in his speech about "if ____ is discovered... I'll get a nobel prize." He really wants one of those things, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 box of chocolates yo no thats life well physics is like life duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 box of chocolates yo no thats life well physics is like life duh nah, its more like Ping-pong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ping pong is a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ping pong is a line. yeah, A LINE IN FOERST GUMP!. SLAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ok, you're too dull to make fun of, I think I get it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ok, you're too dull to make fun of, I think I get it now. pretty much. lol trust me, if you were trying to get a reaction or something that will never happen. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 CERN consensus has reached 5.9 sigma. They found it. http://m.io9.com/5930801/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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