Higgs Boson Found

Nothing in the news on this at all, it's been endless coverage of Bob Diamond all day long.
You'd think the discovery of this importance would prompt somebody in the media to wheel out a scientist or two to comment on it :(
 
Whatever this thing they've found its by the by with me. In layman's terms what the hell is it , what will happen now and now they know it exists what can they do with it? I suspect its nothing.
 
bitslice said:
Nothing in the news on this at all, it's been endless coverage of Bob Diamond all day long.
You'd think the discovery of this importance would prompt somebody in the media to wheel out a scientist or two to comment on it :(
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I think it is due to reporters being unequipped to report on it. They tried on BBC Breakfast this morning and it was quite painful. Some poor phycist was trying to explain it in small words.

There was mention of "particles a bit like treacle" and the female presenter pipped up (interrupting the poor physicist guy) "this explains the origin of our universe the big bang right!?".
 
I've yet to hear a reasonable answer what finding it is going to do.
Even my hero Brian Cox said on the News that it's like now finding out where the ocean is but they haven't found the land yet.
What?

What are the foreseeable things that may happen or is it a case of 'We don't know but we've found it'?
 
Personally I couldn't care less if all that came from it was the discovery itself. The fact that we can first theorise these things, come up with machines that can detect them and then prove the theory correct is amazing in itself.

We waste so much money on so many things but I wish we'd spend more on scientific research.
 
Dimple said:
I've yet to hear a reasonable answer what finding it is going to do.
Even my hero Brian Cox said on the News that it's like now finding out where the ocean is but they haven't found the land yet.
What?

What are the foreseeable things that may happen or is it a case of 'We don't know but we've found it'?
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There is no reasonable answer.

That IS the reasonable answer.

As has been said earlier, it's a discovery on the same level as those that happened early in the 20th century that are only being realised in the modern age with microprocessors that are so small and so fast in devices that would have made the men and women who founded the Science that allowed us to build them, turn in their graves.
 
So to sum up:
Large Hardons
Spaceships
Hoverboards.


Jolly good. Wake me up when we get to the bit about spaceships. Thanks.
 
estebanrey said:
Just a quickie, if we knew this particle already existed and this is just the confirmation, how will/can it impact innovation in the future?
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No. Well not at the moment. Everything we know now, we already knew, only scientists had to rely on conjecture - which plays a large part of physics!

Something which really impressed me (off topic - I read this today):

1. Jump on a rocket
2. Spend 10 years with sustained acceleration of 1G flying away from Earth
3. Spend 10 more years slowing down
4. Turn around.
5. Spend 10 years accelerating towards Earth (sustaining 1G)
6. Spend 10 years slowing down.

Arrive back on Earth 59,000 years later. Your watch will show 40 years have ticked by.

Of course you'll need to read up on spacetime to really get a handle on it :)
 
I've followed this on here but as has been said the news has been terrible. Heard Moyles on the radio today being a failcat and any Scottish news is purely about rangers and the banker guy :(
 
Zefan said:
What don't you understand?

:edit: Note, I don't understand much of it at all :p :D
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Well on the News he said that they didn't know if the Ocean was there but now they've found it but now they've got to find the land.
So basically they found the HB but they don't know what to do with it.
 
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