Tegis Posted December 13, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted December 13, 2011 Update on the search for the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN A seminar will be held today at CERN at which the ATLAS and CMS experiments will present the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs. The seminar begins at 14:00 CET. The auditorium in which the seminar will be held is reserved for CERN personnel and researchers from the laboratory's user community, but a video stream will be relayed to another auditorium in which scientists will be on hand to answer questions. Watch the live webcast At 16:30 CET CERN management and representatives of the two experiments will be available to take questions from the media. Journalists wishing to attend should register with the CERN Press Office. Both the seminar and the following Q&A will be webcast. Journalists following the webcast may submit questions through Twitter using the hashtag #Higgsupdate. A press release will be issued at 15.30 CET in which there will be links to photo and video material. It will be available here: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/List.html Text background on the Higgs, and a glossary of important terms in Higgs research can be found here: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/background/ Cern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 13, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted December 13, 2011 It was under the sofa all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted December 13, 2011 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 13, 2011 mooney, the first to arrive in thread *shocker* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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coda Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Higgs boson rumours fly as Cern prepares to announce latest results Announcement on Wednesday. Hopefully we're closer to teleportation and time travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I imagine it to be a little bubble but with Paul McGrath's face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Apparently it's only called the God particle because the guy that christened it, wanted to call it the Goddamn Particle, due to its elusive nature, but his publisher changed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 30, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand Half true statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Here's a video that explains it (or tries too) http://www.wimp.com/higgsboson/ Interesting part starts at 35 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazdavies79 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Higgs boson rumours fly as Cern prepares to announce latest results Announcement on Wednesday. Hopefully we're closer to teleportation and time travel. Teleportation?? Are we just gonna completely bypass the hover car era just like that? I feel cheated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand me to, my main issue though is that I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 1, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand me to, my main issue though is that I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this? Understanding the structure of how EVERYTHING is built. That in turn can lead to multiple other discoveries that are useful in everyday life. Like if we align paper strips in a certain pattern based on our knowledge of matter, we can make a compound stronger than steel. Or something like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand me to, my main issue though is that I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this? The quest for knowledge has been quite useful down the years . It took us to the moon , cured diseases and gave us the internet. You know the internet ? It gives people a platform to communicate with each other and say things like ... I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Bunch of crap I'll never understand me to, my main issue though is that I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this? The quest for knowledge has been quite useful down the years . It took us to the moon , cured diseases and gave us the internet. You know the internet ? It gives people a platform to communicate with each other and say things like ... I really dont understand the obsession with trying to understand this. This. Even though I still can't be arsed to read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 It took us to the moon or did it :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 It took us to the moon or did it :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Higgs boson rumours fly as Cern prepares to announce latest results Announcement on Wednesday. Hopefully we're closer to teleportation and time travel. Teleportation?? Are we just gonna completely bypass the hover car era just like that? I feel cheated. Don't worry, I'm sure some nice scientist will come along and invent a hover car to accommodate those for whom teleportation just seems too easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolteEndRob Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 As soon as I read the words "Higgs boson" I immediately thought of this guy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I read a book about this recently and it took apart the master equation and then put it together again. I sort of got it in the end (sort of) but you need to split it it up into smaller checks to have a chance. Basically it shows how all the particles interact with each it other (I think there are 12 or 13). The problem was that the h in the equation was this higgs which must exist or the equation does not really work but they need to see it for the thing to be accepted as theory. It's the most amazing thing I have read about and I am continuing reading about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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