#higgs-boson

[dewitty1]

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who discovered a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died.

Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday.

After a series of experiments, which began in earnest in 2008, his theory was proven by physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland in 2012; the Nobel prize was shared with François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist whose work in 1964 also contributed directly to the discovery.

[dearyallfrommatt]

Does the Higgs-boson exist? A nice, concise little video that better explains what scientists mean when they say something “exists” and how that might be different from how philosophers mean it. From the link:

“What do scientists means when they say that something "exists"? In this video, I explain that really we can only confidently say that our theories describe observation. When we say that something exists, we mean it is useful to describe our observations well.  Elementary particles, gravitational waves, black holes, even space and time themselves exist in this very sense: They are useful ingredients of the mathematical theories that we use to make predictions which agree with observation.“

 This is a great channel, by the way. She is very clear and understandable, even for the layman, and gives the raw stuff without all the tomfoolery some channels have to use to get people interested Short, uncluttered and to the point.

[theserpentbox]

Wind Castles {an essay}

Wind Castles {an essay}

Everything changes. All is in flux. There is growth and decay and the weathering effects of sunlight and rain. Water and ice. Fire and wind. The forces that shape the earth give us life and then take it away. Heat and cold, fracture and seep, everything is dying, or is it just changing form? Look around you. See that graying woman, that aging man. See that supple boy. We are dust. All is dust.…

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[ozarde]

Higgs-Boson May Be a Starting Point For a Theory of Everything

Higgs-Boson May Be a Starting Point For a Theory of Everything

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, former director general of European organization for nuclear research CERN, says it is unfortunate that pioneering Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose did not win the Nobel Prize for work on quantum physics in the 1920s that provided the foundation of the Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate, a dense collection of bosons or particles with…

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[crazycollectorpeace-blog]

Lo strano caso di Mr. Higgs e del suo bosone!

[christincall]

Are you there, Laura Mulvey?  It’s me, The Ridiculous Blight of the Earth.

notably       ‘Refreshment?

comparing gaze        do we measure eyeballs in fluid ounces or Kelvin

cuz the HIGGS-BOSON‘s just plain invisible when ya try to stare straight at it

like a solar eclipse turns ya blind       like too many nights dialing ‘0’ on the pink telephone line

and I forgot if I was looking with my girl eyes or my man-trained to be girls of men eyes

            I’m just so dumb I’m sorry

       ultimately             deception (?)

il ne cherche edelweiss        like Julie Andrews

might say if she were existential that spunky bitch lmao

       on the sofa             is tomfoolery              collapse

his fair lady: master, please hit me again for speaking with my mouth             and thank you for teaching me where to put my tongue                   when pronouncing my “r’s” and what else                          can I do to please you

such as calculate the statistical probability of ‘appearance’              corresponding in backwards loop to ‘seemingness’ the judging of book covers and whatnot

                                          but alack! doubt thou the stuffness of stars is hydrogen              fueled to grant all humanity’s wishes excepting the thousands of years its light must travel to bestow them doubt thou cruelty is the most natural kindness or kindness the most unnatural of cruelties

       imbecility! we all             want to call it out

admiration! femmina! Wanderer! the abyss!

we all want to know if morality is really worth anything

       One more mask

darling              that is the secondary role requiring permission to buy groceries for that delicious casserole the whole neighborhood gabbed of profusely all Memorial Day Weekend

mandarin oranges sliced, cottage cheese, marshmallow bits in cherry lime J-ELLO presented on a crisp, green lettuce leaf

and how funny, by that I mean how odd and by that I mean I have not stopped crying

deservedly        the will to power is the constant by which our drives will sink or rise

so rise up, little gentleman             what a good little knob                    it’s only an advertisement after all where two atoms like mice on a track are forced to circle for miles, then collide with impossible violence

blather (gag) sartorial ‘splanations

I’m sorry this did not make you happy             the reason I pause so often in conversation             is to say ‘fuck you’ silently

ce n’est pas…                          un vape?

            the shaman told me a diaphanous wisp of spirit desperately wants to align with my intestines

that’s why I’ve been so ill for so long

[teekhimirchi]

Scientists working on technology to transport Earth's atmosphere to Mars

Scientists working on technology to transport Earth’s atmosphere to Mars

California: In a path-breaking discovery that may help human beings colonize Mars and settle there peacefully, scientists in California Institute of Technology have successfully built a prototype of technology to transport earth’s atmosphere’s in space. This new technology may be used by humans on earth to transport all of our atmosphere to Mars and colonize the red planet.

David demonstrating…

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[fromrusholmewithlove]

Stephen Hawking has unfortunately sparked worry in the public after it was revealed that he believes a cosmic death bubble, caused by changes to the field that the infamous "god particle" is associated with, could wipe out the known universe. To add fuel to the fire, he wrote in the preface to his new book that it could happen at any time, with no prior warning. 

I'm kinda hoping it will tbh