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New Boson found!! Possibly Higgs!

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Does this higgs-Boson, whatever that is have anything to do with higher dimensions?
 

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Higgs boson has to do with the unification of field guage theory and understanding how particles "get" their mass/how mass works in particles. The standard model cannot explain certain phenomena most importantly it contradicts general relativity in certain situations such as what happens at the event horizon of a black hole/happened at the big bang. Higgs could help on the grand quest for a unified theory of physics aka a theory of everything that would explain all physical interaction
 

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Exciting! It'll be even better when everything gets all packaged up with more data and cross-checked into something more than a blip on the radar.

Don't want this turning into another "neutrinos faster than the speed of light" thing.
 

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Its not true that the higgs-bonson holds the universe together.

That is me does that.
 

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Exciting! It'll be even better when everything gets all packaged up with more data and cross-checked into something more than a blip on the radar.

Don't want this turning into another "neutrinos faster than the speed of light" thing.

It was a 5 sigma event, very high probability. this is a bit different than the neutrino situation. there is a 99.99995 chance the result can be reproduced.
 

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I'm just waiting this discovery to translate into different tech on the market.
 

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Higgs boson has to do with the unification of field guage theory and understanding how particles "get" their mass/how mass works in particles. The standard model cannot explain certain phenomena most importantly it contradicts general relativity in certain situations such as what happens at the event horizon of a black hole/happened at the big bang. Higgs could help on the grand quest for a unified theory of physics aka a theory of everything that would explain all physical interaction

Obviously.
 

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I'm just waiting this discovery to translate into different tech on the market.

You'll be waiting quite a while then I think :laugh: Higgs is more important for it's theorhetical ramifications. If you want revolutions look at computing, biotech, nanotechnology. Soooo much stuff going on in meta-materials right now.
 

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You'll be waiting quite a while then I think :laugh: Higgs is more important for it's theorhetical ramifications. If you want revolutions look at computing, biotech, nanotechnology. Soooo much stuff going on in meta-materials right now.

A discovery of this size is a huge deal. It will eventually happen. It's just a question of time.

I'm just curious as to what the real world implications of the discovery are.
 

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There aren't really any real world applications other than a fuller understanding of the way things work, and a sign that we have a lot further to go down the rabbit hole.
 

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There aren't really any real world applications other than a fuller understanding of the way things work, and a sign that we have a lot further to go down the rabbit hole.

Yeah. Not a physicist, but I think this is a significant, but small step toward a Theory of Everything
 

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This extraordinary discovery proves that the Standard Model of Particle Physics is not only beautiful, but true.

The poets told us that truth is beauty and beauty is truth, and the physicists have confirmed it.
 

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I'm just waiting this discovery to translate into different tech on the market.

Not anytime soon, lol.

Also, I kinda hope that never happens.The first step to manipulating higgs-boson particles is by accelerating them removing the mass from other particles. So matter can be erased. Not a technology I'm eager to wait around for. :tongue:
 

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Also, I kinda hope that never happens.The first step to manipulating higgs-boson particles is by accelerating them removing the mass from other particles. So matter can be erased. Not a technology I'm eager to wait around for. :tongue:

*sigh* And I so wanted a disintegrating ray gun!
 

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It was a 5 sigma event, very high probability. this is a bit different than the neutrino situation. there is a 99.99995 chance the result can be reproduced.

Read some more (in-depth) articles and I take it all back. :D Thanks for pointing that out.

But still, we've got a long way to go before this is something we fully comprehend...and I'm excited for when we have a better idea of what the ramifications are for what we're looking at.
 
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