BREAKING: Success For "God Particle" Search Machine

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: http://tiny.cc/dpmw3

The world's biggest "atom smasher" has moved closer towards locating the "God Particle", after colliding protons at three times the energy previously achieved.


Scientists applauded and celebrated a "new era in particle physics" as the beams collided in the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva.

The head of the Atlas team, Fabiola Gianotti said the team is delighted.

"We got something like 40 events per second, which is the expected rate," he said.

"It's the beginning of a new era of physica exploration."

Read more: Sky News

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Should I be excited or terrified? PS Link has problems.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. fixed

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[ixion]

2. w00t!! that calls for a toast

:toast:

[Roland99]

11. Yeah Toast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BILAFuSi-i0

[Kittycat]

32. Love that guy.

Saw him in concert once. Too funny. Would love to take one of my kids to see him.

[yava]

26. a double whisky for me please

and some Swiss cheese if possible

[IADEMO2004]

3. Live webcast link

http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

Very Happy Bunch

[wial]

4. last week they got them going at that energy,

now they're colliding them. Here's an alternate link.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFngOTfNSw21ce_26N1EzfTAXwRQD9EOTO1G0

[damyank913]

6. Business opportunity alert!!! Time to start a new religion "Our Lady of Particulate Matter"

Atom is the father of us all...

[KittyWampus]

16. which came first, the particle or the wave?

[WhiteTara]

31. depends on who's looking!

[No Elephants]

51. In atom's fall, we sinneth all.

[SpiralHawk]

7. They are calling it the Pope Pettyphile Particle

in honor of His Royal Ratzingernesss...

[Lars77]

8. If this experiment was done in the US

With that kind of description (search for the God particle), i'm sure someone would go nuts. But since it's in Europe it can be dismissed as a socialist experiment these stupid communist Europeans do ;)

[Posteritatis]

53. You missed the panic about this on DU before it started up. (nt)

[DCKit]

9. We're DOOMED!!1!1!11 n/t

[Lint Head]

10. Do we now say, God the Father, Son and Particle?

[Wizard777]

13. Why not? It makes perfect sense to me.

[damyank913]

45. And blessed is thy Quark amongst particles...

and blessed are it's fruit of the looms...

[Wizard777]

12. To think people laugh at the notion of Alchemy. HA! Look at it now!

:wow:

:woohoo:

:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

47. It's come a long way, baby.

[Ian David]

14. Here's video footage from inside the collider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJJeDlDEbs

[Delphinus]

33. I had forgotten

how fake the robot in that movie was!! {lol}

[Paper Roses]

15. Great Job scientists. Now If I knew what this was about, I'd

gladly celebrate with you. What practical use or research direction does this feat offer? Was this a "let's see what happens" kind of experiment?

I'm curious, not sarcastic.

[pundaint]

23. This is pure research, the results are unknown and therefore nor practically applicable.

But science fiction has imagined the future prior to the enabling basic discoveries before, so I'm hoping for Star Trek technology.

[Ian David]

37. It could lead to faster computers and smaller hard drives, which means more and better porn. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

54. god, I love science

:)

[tclambert]

42. It's possible this is a step in the direction of allowing us to manipulate gravity

the way we do electricity. Our understanding of gravity is about where we were with electricity when Ben Franklin flew kites in the rain. Electricity was pretty much just a dangerous curiosity back then. 200 years later, no one would want to live without it. 200 years from now--gravity drive spaceships?

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. this is the coolest thing I have heard in ages!

a new age in Physics! What a wonderful world we live in

[Rage Inc.]

18. Whut? We're still here?

Shit! And right after that Egyptian door to the Afterlife was discovered!

[47of74]

20. That was my first thought too

[Rage Inc.]

27. Plus we'll have to hear ALL ABOUT the final episodes of "Lost"

from friends and coworkers who actually watch it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[WinkyDink]

29. Karma.

[derby378]

19. Large Hadron Collider music video!

Hope you like Norwegian metal...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_JZ6K-mHQ

[Ian David]

38. Well, who doesn't like Norwegian metal?

Ow!

Apparently, ME.

[Historic NY]

21. Wow this and the"Door to the afterlife" being found...........

March 29) -- Forget Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Today, archaeologists in Egypt proudly announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old "Door to the Afterlife."

Standing nearly 6 feet tall, the false door is made up of a solid slab of reddish granite intricately engraved with numerous hieroglyphics and carved to create the illusion of a series of concentric door frames stretching off into an infinite horizon. <snip>



http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/door-to-afterlife-found-in-egypt-one-of-many-worldwide/19419161?icid=main|htmlws-main-w|dl1|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fdoor-to-afterlife-found-in-egypt-one-of-many-worldwide%2F19419161

[AlbertCat]

22. Post and lintel, I see

I guess we'll have to wait for the Romans to get a "Keystone Arch to the Afterlife."

[LibertyLover]

25. Nah, the Keystone Arch to the Afterlife" would be in Pennsylvania

The Romans would build the "Insert name of reigning emperor here"'s Arch to the Afterlife. The corbeled arch would be the Mayans contribution.

[LongTomH]

24. We had a chance to build a Super Collider in the US!

The Superconducting Super Collider project. This was canceled in 1993 after we spent a billion dollars - just to dig the tunnel for the super collider. The next billion went to fill in the hole! :mad: :mad: :mad:

The Superconducting Super Collider would have brought the world's greatest physicists to the US and given us a lead in high-energy physics.

And - as they say - the rest is history! Leadership in high-energy physics went to Europe.:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Oh well! The world's brightest young people still come to American universities - so they can go home and take American jobs!:banghead:

[Haole Girl]

28. Yes we did.

:-(

[WinkyDink]

30. It was to enrich Texas.

[derby378]

41. It would have been far better for Texas to get the SSC...

...than for our State Board of Education to seriously discuss watering down educational standards for school textbooks and trying to turn our state into a laughing stock.

[Posteritatis]

52. Hosting something like that would've benefited more than just Texas. (nt)

[Tailormyst]

34. So awesome

[Rage Inc.]

35. Are you SURE we're still here???

I mean, I haven't done my taxes yet.....seems like an awful waste of time if...

[Divine Discontent]

36. Superconductor! RUSH! just makes me think of that song, not sure if the term applies, but I think

it does.

[tclambert]

39. Physics joke:

A Higgs boson walks into a church. The priest says, "Whoa! We don't allow your kind in here." The Higgs boson says, "But without me how can you have mass?"

(Wish I had made it up myself, but I stole it from a previous thread.)

[IDemo]

43. Atheist particle demands further evidence n/t

[Odin2005]

46. AAAAAH, LOL!!! DUzy

:rofl:

[Cronus Protagonist]

40. Luckily, we all live in a reality where the black hole did NOT consume the entire planet

Thanks go to God for the quantum probability spectrum. My condolences to the world that was swallowed up.

[47of74]

44. Just out of curiosity, anyone hear about the other collider?

You know, the Large Hardon Collider?

[and-justice-for-all]

48. Imaginary beings not required...

The "god particle" is metaphorical

[rrneck]

49. Uh-Oh

Scientists have now managed to force the two beams to cross, creating collisions and showers of particles.

But, I thought crossing the beams was BAD.

[muriel_volestrangler]

50. High energy collisions reveal a paleoparticle

Physicists working on the LHC results have announced their first discovery: a hideous particle from the prehistory of the Universe

The news is historic, or rather "prehistoric" to be more precise! It has taken two physicists studying the collisions at 7 TeV in the centre of mass on 30 March only two days to make an astonishing discovery. From their precise analysis of four events, Alain Grand and Ricarda Owen have found evidence of a new, massive neutral particle thought to have existed in the very early Universe. "It's awful", explains Alain Grand, still shocked by the discovery. "It left horrible tracks inside the detector that made the physicists on duty at the time feel quite sick". No wonder. The particle consists of two strange quarks and one top quark but no beauty or charm quark. The physicists have nicknamed it the "neutrinosaurus" because of its repulsive appearance and prehistoric origins.

Hints of the new particle had already been glimpsed in two events at Fermilab but the statistics were too low to be published. The four events observed at the LHC generated an exponential increase (2²=4) in the statistics, allowing the physicists to announce the discovery unequivocally.

http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html

Thankfully, they got the LHC working just in time to be able to announce this today.