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Blood Red Arachnid

By Blood Red Arachnid,
Posted on: 2012-03-07 10:49 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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According to this article the existince or non existence of the god paricle will be known by the end of 2012.

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All joking aside, it'll be interesting to see if it ends up proven to exist.

 

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I hate the way science is reported on these days like some b rated reality show. God particle.... Pfft.

The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.

 

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Scientist create a theoretical model and a giant machine to test to see if they can find a particle that is called the higgs-boson, but was referred to as the god damned particle, but an editor took out a word and changed which made the sentence nonsense and some illiterates picked it up and ran with it...

Scientists designed said machine knowing the upper and lower limits of the energy they needed to feed into the machine to see if their theories are right, created a schedule to slowly turn up the machine over time and this has all been set for years now...

Internet news site reports nothing that hasn't been known for years as if it were new...

It's a good thing we're not relying on that news site for important new otherwise it might report that the end of the world happened several years after it happened...

 

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I could've sworn that I read on Yahoo news once that experiments regarding the matter-energy conversion in particle accelerators that indicated that there were a minimum of 5 different types of Higgs-boson particles.

Regardless, I do wonder how mass works at the subatomic scale, so I am eagerly awaiting the results.


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Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid View Post
I could've sworn that I read on Yahoo news once that experiments regarding the matter-energy conversion in particle accelerators that indicated that there were a minimum of 5 different types of Higgs-boson particles.

Regardless, I do wonder how mass works at the subatomic scale, so I am eagerly awaiting the results.
What struck me is that the mathematical models predict everything about it except its mass. And I'm like: Wait, what? The mass of a particle that fills in the gap of the next step toward a Theory of Everything could be arbitrary and totally unrelated to how it interacts with everything else?

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What struck me is that the mathematical models predict everything about it except its mass. And I'm like: Wait, what? The mass of a particle that fills in the gap of the next step toward a Theory of Everything could be arbitrary and totally unrelated to how it interacts with everything else?
I think the models are wrong from what little i know of the subject and won't be even remotely surprised if they don't find it.

I think mass is a result of energy in general...

If you look at e=mc^2 it is energy = mass * the speed of light or in my opinion more accurately as energy/matter is curvature of space multiplied by the maximum amount of change in the area...

or rather it is simply an equation that expresses the relationship between space-time and the stuff in it and how they effect each other.

the equation is always used to figure out much energy you can get from an atom but as far as i know noone ever asked why it is the case that mass increases as you poor energy in it. Maybe i don't understand something, but it always struck me that there would have to me some sort of reason for why it does that and the answer i came up with is basically that there is a maximum amount of change that can occur in a given area and when you increase the amount of stuff there then the amount of change any one object can have is less over all and likewise this causes a drag through the other dimensions causing mass...


It just crossed my mind that if this were the case the estimate for the universe's age would likely be quite different and would somewhat explain dark energy (time is accelerating in areas of less mass) but meh I'm no physicist so what do i know...