God particle found

The Higgs boson was the missing link in understanding the inter-relation of all four types of forces in nature..the strong, weak, electromagnetic and the gravitational forces.

It has a much higher mass than other sub-atomic particles so its considered to give mass to the quarks.

Satyen Bose, an Indian scientist worked with Einstein to formulate some equations on quarks regarding their behaviour and thus the name Boson is given on him. Also, Peter Higgs formed a theory on such a particle 40 years back but couldn't see it. He is still alive and hopefully is the happiest man on earth today!

Yesterday was a historic day for the scientist community and professor Higgs was on cloud nine. And why not, he was ridiculed when he came up with this idea about 40 years ago. "I am happy that it happened in my life time", he quipped.
Can our on board physicist elaborate on the significance of this discovery for everyone?

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Moza, you are creating a new myth by naming it "God's Particle". It's far from being established, by the way. A statistical spike at a certain energy level indicates that there is a particle which may have the properties postulated by Higgs, but it might as well be only one of many Higgs particles at similar energy levels, and that would open the door to a "new" physics and the Standard Model would have to be adjusted. Yes, there is joy about getting the numbers, but there are as many new questions as there were collisions at the LHC to achieve those data.

Blah, blah, blah.

LP, saw these news yesterday, since don't understand anything! so was waiting for you to share on QL and explain!
But even heard another name GodDamn particle, and Indian media mistakenly give it the name of God's particle!

ingeniero, since you don't understand "anything", I wouldn't know where to start.

You can go here for a start, ingeniero.
http://hyperphysics....

Zanzibar, look at it this way: the laws that are discovered don't NEED a creator to explain the universe. The beauty of these "laws" is that the universe emanated by itself by accident because it could.

Exactly because of that, Zanzibar. There is no reason to assume that we are the only ones. If elsewhere in the vast universe conditions (accidentally) allow a form of life to emanate, it will. It doesn't have to be like our life form, though. The universe is free to let everything happen because there are always two possibilities: it either happens, or it doesn't.

Basically it is to do with mass in the universe, there should be more than we see or otherwise all the particles will just fizz around at the speed of light. Prof Higgs theorised this particle is responsible for the large amounts of mass in the universe we cannot see. Think dark matter

basically it's reverse of E=mc2, so far we concentrated on creation of energy by mass, now they're working on getting mass from energy.
if they get to know it, it changes lots of things, including big bang theory, but changes in our life will not come over night.
I doubt it'll ever change the concept of God! Our great (?) godmen will eveolve their theory accordingly to feed the stupids.

It doesn't matter who set the rules. The rules are nothing special, they are only ONE possibility of many. The fact that there are laws in physics only means that they happened to be there. Any other laws had the same chance. And maybe there are other universes with other laws. But since our laws don't apply there, it isn't interesting for us, it's actually inaccessible for us (and vice versa). The laws did not form the universe! The laws and the universe formed simultaneously just as they did without any preference for this or that law. We tend to make a mistake to think that conditions have to be set up BEFORE things can evolve. It's not like this. Things evolve WITH the conditions which evolve at the SAME time.

agree with LP

It was just called the God particle after a book that tackles about a particle that could fill the missing piece of the standard model.Though this could be the one scientists have been waiting for, there are still heaps of work to do to validate this. Let's see if it will uncover the mysteries of the universe and redefine the world.

Yes No big deal but to claim it as a God particle doesnt sound good to me.The particle would complete the standard model which is only a part of the universe.If this is a particle from the creator of the universe then why can't it uncover all the mysteries? It is so easy to use doctrines made by people who can't even give us a clear explanation or an evidence.No wonder why many of us are easily fooled.

happy, the Standard Model tells you how the universe will end and what you have to do to survive in this place. Did you know that the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way Galaxy with a velocity of about 1700 km/second? No? Well, tell your offspring to be prepared. So, you don't know when it will happen? Simple, take the current distance which is approximately 2 million light-years and divide it by the velocity. And then you can say exactly when it will happen (+/- a few million years.)

we can cringe for grant of millions (easy), but if somebody hadn’t thought to do/learn/invent in science many years back, we might not have been doing QLing using latest computers, and probably roaming around on a camel :)

Z Simba
Old laurels don’t work always. They may be knowing few things, in past, but unless one comes out in search of new knowledge, one can’t sustain in modern days. (now plz don’t bring faith into it)
Though its matter of satisfaction as Higgs Boson has its well-deserved Indian connection (Dr Satyendra Bose), even lots of Indian scientists are working on this project including other technical/logistical supports.

Newton's laws are not universal laws, they are true only on a limited scale! But since you slept in physics classes this might have gone unnoticed for you.

Scientists have discovered other bosons like photons, gluons, vector bosons etc. but this higgs boson has eluded the scientists for many many years. Thats probably the reason it was called the god particle.

eons ago, man says earth is flat and the sun revolves around earth.

and then science and physics came forth.. to nullify that belief.

somehow, the more man tries to dig deeper into science and physics... the more that they find complications that would further need complex explanations...

and more questions to verify new discoveries shall once again be formulated...

and another phase of research begins...

will there be no ends to this?

We're going to become extinct ????

WHEN will this happen ? Will it be befor the 2022 WC ? Should I still have to pay my mortgage ?

Question to LP, In one of the discussions a scientist from Germany commented that such high energy levels, in the order of 8 GV, used to produce these sub-atomic particles run a risk of producing black holes.

He also said, if a black hole is created under the earth, this could devour the earth in some years.

I saw this scientist was quite old and possibly might have been senile but is there any truth in what he says?

Listen to this..

http://www.aljazeera...

The Higgs Boson.

Since we are now pretty sure it actually exists, can we all agree to stop calling it the "God particle?"