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The Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider
A hint of Higgs
Dec 14th 2011, 6:49 by The Economist online
CERN announces sightings, but not proof, of possible Higgs boson signatures in the LHC, and our correspondents take a look inside the world's largest microscope
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"our correspondents take a look inside the world's largest microscope"
And NOPE! ...they couldn't find Iraq's alleged WMD's THERE either!
All I Need to Know I Learned in Vacation Bible School, Class of 1957!
Screwin around with exorbitant funds to pretend to be of value while allowing mass corruption, rapes, wars, starvation, disease and indifference to righteousness is certainly grounds for endless contempt.
I got yer economy swingin, right here!
All this "mabe" possibly" we have found "God" , if you are right and it really means "Goddamn" it suggests the spin doctors are at work and Cern needs a bit of a strip tease to extract another billion or two. Is This is the intellectual/philosophicalScientific equivalent of a lap dance? I fear it may be. It reminds me of Nuclear Fusion. "Wow we have made the thing run for a few milliseconds. We just need a trillion or two more and...(next year)wow we havew made the thing run for a few milliseconds..." Well I suppose if it keeps a few Scientists off the street and developing nuclear bombs for Goddamn knows who it may be worth it.
MabN, you're absolutely right. Those silly scientists. Someone should put you in charge of deciding what gets to be investigated and by who. You can also decide which projects on which we get to spend it all the money we save. After all, you are so much smarter than they are. Down with science, I say.
the biggest mistake for a human being is to declare that something us beyond our comprehension, as I did a few years ago to say, higgs will never be found. It could be true that it has been found at 5 sigma, or maybe we arent there yet. But the adventure continues... I hope phycisists will be able to create higgs, from nothing, without having to smash subatomic particles in each other. And eventually create a broad spectrum antiviral, anti ageing, antimalnutrition, antideath and antiirrationality wonderdrug. This will be the triumph of man over God and gods.