God Particle

[se7entse7en]

A particle that gives mass to matter has been discovered. I never even considered that such a thing was necessary. Weird.

Does anybody know anything about this?

[se7entse7en]

Here's a link (not that I understood any of it):

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulle ... 9460?ln=en

One thought does come to mind though. According to the Mayan calendar, when's the world supposed to end?

[geForce]

That Dan Brown book Angels and Demons was based around this *previously* theoretical particle.

This particle is what they say is responsible for the Big Bang that created the universe. That's why it's nicknamed the "God particle".

[se7entse7en]

Hmm, interesting.
Looks like I've got some reading to do... maybe.

[nature boy]

i saw the headlines but i knew that i wasn't going to understand any of it, so i didn't bother reading.

so it's anti-matter? i thought that's what the thing in angels and demons was.

[se7entse7en]

You might understand this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/s ... -discovery

[nature boy]

the funny thing is that i understood the "people you're trying to impress" the best.
i wonder how they even got to discovering that thing.

[se7entse7en]

Yeah, and "For teenagers studying A-level physics", filled in the missing gaps for me. ie. mass unaccounted for, yadda yadda.

[nature boy]

now that they "found" it, what are they going to do?

well, besides blowing up the vatican, of course.

[se7entse7en]

Experiments into ftl travel of course.
Unfortunately their first prototype ftl engine will have a design flaw and will explode catastrophically resulting in the entire universe being disassembled.

[nature boy]

I read another article that I'd post here but I forgot it. Anyway, apparently that particle accelerator in angels and demons actually exisits.

[se7entse7en]

[nature boy]

Still, I wonder if it'd have any use. Like perhaps unlimited energy or something.

[Wetundies]

or making a new universe.

[nature boy]

we aren't finished destroying the old universe yet.