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Dec 1, 2011 8:24:26 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Dec 1, 2011 8:24:26 GMT -6
Chicago Native Takes Reins at CERNBy William Mullen, Chicago Tribune reporter November 27, 2011 When Joe Incandela was growing up in the west suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s, his parents enrolled him and his three older sisters in Saturday classes at the School of the Art Institute. "Both my husband and I were interested in art, and we thought one of them would have this great talent," said Incandela's mother, Rose, 83. Her son, who spent Saturdays immersed in art from the time he was 7 through high school, became an outstanding glass sculptor. But he also had an outsize love of science. "I said he was going to be the scientist," Rose Incandela said. "No, my husband said, he was going to be the artist. And I won." Indeed she did. Incandela, 55, a graduate of Elgin High School with a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago, will take leadership Jan. 1 of what is billed as the largest single international science experiment in history: the hunt for the elusive "God particle." Incandela will direct 3,600 scientists working near Geneva at the 3-year-old Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. He was elected by his scientific peers in April to a two-year term as "chief spokesperson" of the Compact Muon Solenoid detector experiment in Europe. His title, a bit of scientific tact to avoid bruised egos, belies that he is effectively CEO of the CMS experiment, an epic effort to solve what many believe to be the most vexing problem in science: Proving or disproving the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle. It is the only elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model theory of particle physics that has never been observed. Knowledge about the Higgs boson would generate data that could begin to answer many questions about the universe: Are there extra, undiscovered dimensions in the universe? How did the universe come to be? Are there undiscovered principles of nature? What is dark matter? What is dark energy? "It's an exciting time for particle physics," Incandela, who grew up in Addison and Wayne, said on a recent visit to Chicago. "A little bit like the launching of the Hubble Space Telescope." The scientists working with Incandela, 2,200 of them physicists, are drawn from 178 institutions in 39 nations. At their disposal in the hunt for the Higgs boson is the 15.5-ton, four-story-tall CMS detector, which is attached to the 16.8-mile CERN particle accelerator ring buried 350 feet underground. The accelerator is so powerful it put Fermilab's 28-year-old Tevatron accelerator ring in suburban Batavia, which is four miles in length, out of business. Though he abandoned his pursuit of art early on, Incandela is approaching his latest scientific undertaking with the soul of an artist. "Most artists and most scientists are idealists who do what they do not to make lots of money or to produce something practical in the immediate sense," Incandela said. "They both strive for something that is timeless, that contributes something significant to culture and to humanity." He speculates his father pushed him toward art because of his father's frustration over dropping out of architectural school one semester shy of graduation. He went on to build a successful electrical contracting business. As a boy, Incandela loved his Saturday classes at the Art Institute and bought into his dad's dream. "I was really passionate about art and wanted to make it my life," he said. By the time he finished high school in 1974, he was an accomplished sculptor in glass, heavily influenced by Dominick Labino, who used his knowledge as a trained chemist to make distinctive glass pieces. "I decided I had to do the same, to become a chemist to help my sculpture," Incandela said. "So I went off to the University of Colorado to study chemistry." He soon realized chemistry did not excite his imagination, but a course in physics did, so he gave up his ideas about art and transferred to the University of Chicago's renowned physics department. Soon he was sitting in an undergraduate class taught by particle physicist Henry Frisch. "I remember that class well," said Frisch, who still teaches at the U. of C. "There was one student who was acing every exam and every problem set that I assigned. He didn't just ace them, they were done elegantly and with real authority. "I hadn't put the names of the students together with their faces yet, and I was trying to figure out which of the students it was, thinking it was one of the bright-eyed, eager kids who always sat in the front row. I never expected it to be the very sleepy-looking guy in an Army jacket in the back row who was clearly bored. "But that was Joe, so I hired him as a junior research tech. That's how they really learn, doing real research early." Frisch eventually became the academic adviser for Incandela's doctoral thesis. With his doctorate, Incandela was working on a project in Italy when he received a fellowship to do research at CERN, a French acronym that stands for European Organization for Nuclear Research. While working there from 1987 through 1991, he met his British wife, Helen, a librarian at CERN. He then came back to work at Fermilab, becoming a co-leader of one of several teams using the Tevatron collider to find the so-called top quark, whose existence was suggested by the Standard Model. The Standard Model was formulated in the 1970s as a theory of fundamental interactions of elementary particles — elementary because they are not composed of smaller particles. They're the stuff of which atoms, matter and the universe itself are composed. Fermions, quarks, leptons and bosons — many were given names before anybody knew for sure if they existed, though mathematical modeling strongly suggested they must. One by one, experiments confirmed the existence of most of them. In 1995, Fermilab experienced one of the century's great scientific triumphs when its researchers, which included Incandela's team, observed and confirmed the existence of the top quark, one of the last unobserved quarks. That left the Higgs boson as the last predicted elementary particle to be identified. After the top quark success, Incandela moved on to a professorship at the University of California at Santa Barbara and helped design the CMS detector for the Large Hadron Collider, built specifically to search for the Higgs boson. Since the collider was first turned on in 2008, researchers have been gradually increasing its power as it sends streams of protons racing around the 16.8-mile ring 11,245 times a second, near the speed of light, producing high temperatures "that have not been seen since the Big Bang," Incandela said. Beams of trillions of protons are squeezed down to a stream one third as thick as a human hair to generate 600 million particle collisions a second. The CMS detector uses extremely sophisticated 3-D cameras that record the tracks left behind by the colliding protons. Researchers look for telltale track patterns that will pinpoint Higgs boson particles if they exist. "The camera can make something like 20 million (collision) images in a second, so many that we can't keep them all," he said. "We use very fast electronics and special types of processors that reduce the number of photos to 100,000 per second. We use 60 computer centers all over the world to analyze those 100,000 images individually. We keep perhaps 300 events every second out of the tens of millions of them recorded." The hope is that in the next year, the detector will capture the Higgs boson on film, he said, but the experiment is so big and unprecedented, the hope also is that it will open unforeseen windows into the universe. During his recent visit to Chicago, Incandela was meeting with most of the 30-person leadership team put together for his two-year tenure heading the experiment. Since his election in April, he and his leadership team have gradually started working in tandem with the experiment's current administrators so the turnover of authority is seamless. "We can't stop the experiment Jan. 1 and have it wait while my leadership team learns its jobs. We can't afford to miss a beat," he said. Incandela is the first American scientist to be elected as spokesperson of a major experiment on the Large Hadron Collider, a singular honor because the CERN facility is largely financed and run by Europeans. Frisch said he is not at all surprised to see Incandela running the CMS project. "Joe got that experiment because he is special," Frisch said. "When he was here, he was with a lot of can-do people who knew how to go after things. He is very talented, skilled and good with people, bright, direct and straightforward in a way that I think people appreciate." wmullen@tribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-elgin-swiss-god-particle-20111127,0,7637919.story?page=1
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Dec 7, 2011 8:18:35 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Dec 7, 2011 8:18:35 GMT -6
Higgs, or no Higgs?? Rumors Explode Over Higgs Boson DiscoveryBy Ian O'Neill Published December 07, 2011 Discovery News This could be the announcement we've all been waiting for.
As soon as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) revved up its supercooled electromagnets in 2008 -- which promptly "quenched" (read: broke down in a very expensive way) and then restarted the following year -- it's been the one piece of news the world has been eagerly awaiting: confirmation of the discovery of one of the Universe's most secretive particles -- the Higgs boson. After gazillions of particle collisions and countless rumors of Higgs discoveries, we have... yet another rumor of a Higgs discovery. But this time, the rumor seems to be meatier than ever. According to PhysicsWorld.com, CERN's Scientific Policy Committee will be meeting on Tuesday (Dec. 13) to discuss, amongst other things, an update on the search for the Higgs boson. Teams from the LHC's ATLAS and CMS experiments will be in attendance. As noted by the Guardian.co.uk, the head scientists of the two groups will be there to give the Higgs update. "That in itself is telling – usually more junior researchers present updates on the search for the missing particle," Sample pointed out in his Dec. 6 article. Apart from the heads of ATLAS and CMS being there, why all the excitement? According to comments left on a number of particle physics blogs, the word is that the LHC is closing in on the Higgs. The Higgs boson is theorized to be the "force carrier" of the Higgs field -- a field thought to permeate the entire Universe, endowing matter with mass. Only by using powerful particle accelerators like the LHC do we stand a chance of seeing these mysterious particles. Apparently, both the ATLAS and CMS experiments are independently seeing a Higgs signal, and the predicted mass of the particle agrees with the experimental results. In particle physics-speak, the Higgs appears to have a mass of 125 GeV (giga¬electronvolts). The upshot is that if this is proven, one of physics' bedrock theories -- the Standard Model -- is holding steady. If the Higgs does exist with this mass, then perhaps some more tricky Universal mysteries can be resolved. If the insider-trading-like rumors are substantiated, the ATLAS detection has been measured to a 3.5-sigma certainty and the CMS result has been measured to a 2.5-sigma certainty. All these "sigmas" may not mean much, but they are a measure of the statistical certainty of a given result. In an earlier Discovery News article Sean Carroll, senior research associate in the Department of Physics at Caltech, shed some light on what this means. "Three-sigma events happen occasionally, especially when you look at a lot of data," he said. "But it could be real." At 3.5-sigma, the ATLAS measurement has a 0.1 percent chance of being a "random fluke." The 2.5-sigma result has a 1 percent chance of being a fluke. With those odds, it's little wonder there's some excitement stirring. However, particle physicists are meticulous about their statistics before going public with any discovery. "Three-sigma isn't seen as a 'discovery,' but it would be strong evidence for the existence of the Higgs," said Jon Butterworth, an LHC physicist working with the ATLAS detector. "Really, a 'five-sigma' is classed as a discovery. Five-sigma is the 'Gold Standard.'" In an internal email, Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, attempted to manage the spiraling rumors: "These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the Summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs." So, though exciting, the possible announcement on Tuesday will allude to the fact that CERN physicists are onto something, rather than any concrete evidence for the Higgs. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/07/rumors-explode-over-higgs-boson-discovery/?test=faces#ixzz1frAaC6gU
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Dec 7, 2011 21:35:29 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Dec 7, 2011 21:35:29 GMT -6
If something moved faster than the speed of light would we be able to see it? I don't think so. So how do people know that the speed of light is the fastest thing in the galaxy? Does this Higgs thingy move faster than light?
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Jan 7, 2012 11:01:03 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jan 7, 2012 11:01:03 GMT -6
Getting Closer? First Hint of the Higgs Boson ParticleScienceDaily (Jan. 6, 2012) — The answer to one of the most exciting questions in particle physics seems almost close enough to touch: Scientists at the Geneva research center CERN have observed first signs of the Higgs boson and now believe that they will soon be able to prove the existence of the elementary particle they have been trying so hard to isolate. It is the last missing piece in the puzzle of the Standard Model of particle physics to explain the structure of matter. A discovery would be sensational news. "We indeed may have observed the first evidence of the Higgs particle, but it is still too early for a definitive statement," says Professor Dr. Volker Büscher from the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany. "And if this evidence turns out to be correct, the data now being analyzed will for the first time provide information about the mass of the Higgs boson," adds Professor Dr. Stefan Tapprogge. At Mainz University, some 50 physicists participate in CERN's research, in particular in the ATLAS experiment, one of two major experiments tasked with searching for the Higgs particle.´ "At this point in time, we can make two statements," Büscher says. "First, if the Higgs boson actually has the characteristics it is assumed to have, then its mass must be between 115 and 131 gigaelectron volts -- a much smaller window than just a year ago. Second, we have found a very intriguing excess of events, which could be the first direct evidence of a Higgs boson with a mass around 125 GeV." The experiments at CERN will continue next year. If the evidence is confirmed, the Higgs boson would be about 125 times as heavy as a proton. In addition to this new data from the ATLAS detector, the second large particle detector at LHC, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), has revealed similar indications. Confirmation would be a dream come true for the scientists working with Volker Büscher and Stefan Tapprogge. Many have dedicated their academic careers to the hunt for the Higgs particle -- and are involved right now when things get really exciting. "This is a great moment for us all, and it would be wonderful if the observations were confirmed," says Tapprogge. Scientists are not yet speaking of a discovery, because it is still too early: The number of events observed is not yet large enough to statistically rule out a random effect. However, the fact that two independent experiments, ATLAS and CMS, both point in the same direction, creates excitement and raises hopes that this could indeed be the mysterious Higgs particle. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120106130308.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Matter+%26+Energy+News%29
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Feb 14, 2012 8:34:11 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Feb 14, 2012 8:34:11 GMT -6
CERN is turning up the power--over half way to design parameter of 7TeV.....Large Hadron Collider to Run at 4 TeV Per Beam in 2012ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2012) — CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year, 0.5 TeV higher than in 2010 and 2011. This decision was taken by CERN management following the annual performance workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered Feb. 13 by the external CERN Machine Advisory Committee (CMAC). It is accompanied by a strategy to optimise LHC running to deliver the maximum possible amount of data in 2012 before the LHC goes into a long shutdown to prepare for higher energy running. The data target for 2012 is 15 inverse femtobarns for ATLAS and CMS, three times higher than in 2011. Bunch spacing in the LHC will remain at 50 nanoseconds. "When we started operating the LHC for physics in 2010, we chose the lowest safe beam energy consistent with the physics we wanted to do," said CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. "Two good years of operational experience with beam and many additional measurements made during 2011 give us the confidence to safely move up a notch, and thereby extend the physics reach of the experiments before we go into the LHC's first long shutdown." The LHC's excellent performance in 2010 and 2011 has brought tantalising hints of new physics, notably narrowing the range of masses available to the Higgs particle to a window of just 16 GeV. Within this window, both the ATLAS and CMS experiments have seen hints that a Higgs might exist in the mass range 124-126 GeV. However, to turn those hints into a discovery, or to rule out the Standard Model Higgs particle altogether, requires one more year's worth of data. The LHC is scheduled to enter a long technical stop at the end of this year to prepare for running at its full design energy of around 7 TeV per beam. "By the time the LHC goes into its first long stop at the end of this year, we will either know that a Higgs particle exists or have ruled out the existence of a Standard Model Higgs," said CERN's Research Director, Sergio Bertolucci. "Either would be a major advance in our exploration of nature, bringing us closer to understanding how the fundamental particles acquire their mass, and marking the beginning of a new chapter in particle physics." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120213172038.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Matter+%26+Energy+News%29
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Feb 20, 2012 10:34:51 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Feb 20, 2012 10:34:51 GMT -6
Answer to shocking 'faster-than-light' particles due soonWritten By Clara Moskowitz Published February 20, 2012 LiveScience VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Physicists stunned the world last year by announcing they'd seen signs that particles called neutrinos were traveling faster than light — a feat thought to be proven impossible by Einstein. Ever since, other researchers have been racing to try the experiment on their own to see if the findings hold up. Some results of these tests should be announced this spring, scientists said Friday (Feb. 17) here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Shocking findingThe bizarre finding was first reported in September 2011, when physicists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, announced that an experiment called OPERA had measured the tiny subatomic particles apparently breaking what was thought to be the ultimate cosmic speed limit. If this really occurred, it would contradict Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, and throw much of physics into upheaval. Double checkThe discovery was met with shock and skepticism by most physicists, including the members of the OPERA team themselves. The researchers immediately invited other experts to weigh in and try to reproduce their results to either confirm or disprove the finding. And that's just what they've been doing. Several attempts to recreate the OPERA experiment have been undertaken around the world, including one in Japan called T2K (Tokai to Kamioka), and another, called MINOS, at Fermilab. MINOS sends neutrinos from its location near Chicago to a mine in northern Minnesota. Last fall, MINOS didn't have the right equipment to make a measurement sensitive enough to prove or disprove the OPERA results. Since then, the lab has installed new hardware and started up the experiment. "They started two weeks ago collecting data," Roser said. "I would expect you would hear in May or June what Fermilab's answer is." Copyright 2012 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/20/answer-to-shocking-faster-than-light-particles-expected-soon/?intcmp=features#ixzz1mwLFR3lb
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Feb 20, 2012 13:35:52 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2012 13:35:52 GMT -6
It's entirely possible that the rules of physics as we know them..are just that..only as we know and understand them. There could be so much we just don't know yet..and well..it's pretty hard to doubt that given what most of us believe
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Feb 20, 2012 14:57:01 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2012 14:57:01 GMT -6
Whenever I hear of this stuff, I think of Jo, and "string theory" . Hmmmmmm. Neutrinos going through mines all over the place? Weird sounds, anyone??
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Feb 21, 2012 11:01:36 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 11:01:36 GMT -6
It's disturbing to think that human kind may have joggled and jiggled some sort of physics to cause world wide harmonics..because..it's not the noise that bothers me but that usually with thunder there's some kind of unpleasant lightening..what else is in the package with the noise? (rhetorical) Something is changing.. subtly..even our clouds don't look the same. (to me) Never stick a knife in a cake before it's done *sigh*
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Feb 22, 2012 16:04:40 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Feb 22, 2012 16:04:40 GMT -6
Uh oh!NETWORKWORLD
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Faster-than-light neutrinos? ... Not so fast.
New report casts doubt upon last year's much-doubted science shockerBy Paul McNamara on Wed, 02/22/12 - 4:27pm. Really? You mean it was a loose connection and not a fatal flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity that apparently accounted for last September's breathtaking news that neutrinos had beaten previously undefeated light in a race from Switzerland to Italy? That's the latest theory anyway, which if it stands up would be way funnier than my first physics joke. From a post this afternoon on ScienceInsider: "According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos. New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis."Hey, at least it appears as though the computer was plugged in. www.networkworld.com/community/blog/faster-light-neutrinos-not-so-fast?source=nww_rss
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Feb 22, 2012 19:29:04 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Feb 22, 2012 19:29:04 GMT -6
Good thing they didn't receive the Nobel prize for their "discovery" before they discovered the cable error. I bet the Nobel people would feel awfully silly if it turned out that they gave the prize to somebody who didn't deserve it. Like they have never done that before.
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Feb 22, 2012 20:16:19 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Feb 22, 2012 20:16:19 GMT -6
Careful, Sky! Your politics are showing.....
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Feb 23, 2012 0:19:48 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2012 0:19:48 GMT -6
*laughing* ;D
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Apr 6, 2012 7:28:40 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Apr 6, 2012 7:28:40 GMT -6
LHC Physics Data Taking Gets Underway at New Record Collision Energy of 8TeVScienceDaily (Apr. 5, 2012) — At 00:38 CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared 'stable beams' as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC's four interaction points. This signals the start of physics data taking by the LHC experiments for 2012. The collision energy of 8 TeV is a new world record, and increases the machine's discovery potential considerably. "The experience of two good years of running at 3.5 TeV per beam gave us the confidence to increase the energy for this year without any significant risk to the machine," explained CERN[1]'s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. "Now it's over to the experiments to make the best of the increased discovery potential we're delivering them!" Although the increase in collision energy is relatively modest, it translates to an increased discovery potential that can be several times higher for certain hypothetical particles. Some such particles, for example those predicted by supersymmetry, would be produced much more copiously at the higher energy. Supersymmetry is a theory in particle physics that goes beyond the current Standard Model, and could account for the dark matter of the Universe. Standard Model Higgs particles, if they exist, will also be produced more copiously at 8 TeV than at 7 TeV, but background processes that mimic the Higgs signal will also increase. That means that the full year's running will still be necessary to convert the tantalising hints seen in 2011 into a discovery, or to rule out the Standard Model Higgs particle altogether. "The increase in energy is all about maximising the discovery potential of the LHC," said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. "And in that respect, 2012 looks set to be a vintage year for particle physics." The LHC is now scheduled to run until the end of 2012, when it will go into its first long shutdown in preparation for running at an energy of 6.5 TeV per beam as of late 2014, with the ultimate goal of ramping up to the full design energy of 7 TeV. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405131342.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Matter+%26+Energy+News%29
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Apr 6, 2012 13:04:59 GMT -6
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I do not know what that thing is so fascinating to me..I am no physicist But it is appealing and creepy at the same time. Beats me
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May 8, 2012 18:52:45 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2012 9:11:00 GMT -6
It's kind of funny watching the one guy with the dark hair especially, trying to put it into understandable terms while wondering..why would they ever want to do this? Sort of reeling him back in from the brain walk about he was on ;D
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Jul 2, 2012 14:29:05 GMT -6
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Gotta wonder where this will lead.. This is as big as the, well, big bang theory: Scientists working at the world's largest atom smasher say they have enough evidence of the long-sought-after Higgs boson. To the layman, the Higgs boson is the "God particle" and a key puzzle piece in the scientific explanation of the origin of the universe. Physicists around the globe—and perhaps elsewhere, given the size of the universe—have invested billions of dollars in research and have been hunting for the Higgs boson for decades. |
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Jul 3, 2012 21:11:12 GMT -6
Post by casper on Jul 3, 2012 21:11:12 GMT -6
Now that they found it what are they going to do with it? I don't think they can sell it and get their money back.
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Jul 8, 2012 12:27:16 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 8, 2012 12:27:16 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/07/higgs-boson-will-unlock-great-mysteries-of-the-universe-era-of-new-physics-looming-weekend-feature.htmlJuly 07, 2012 "Higgs Boson Will Unlock Great Mysteries of the Universe" --Era of New Physics Looming (Weekend Feature)Physicists said Thursday the potential discovery of the "God particle" was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe's great mysteries including dark matter. The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to help explain why matter has mass, was hailed as a huge moment for science by physicists gathered in Australia this past week, where CERN's findings were unveiled via videolink from Geneva at a landmark conference attended by hundreds of the field's top experts. Scientists hailed the announcement, speculating that it could one day make light speed travel possible by "un-massing" objects or allow huge items to be launched into space by "switching off" the Higgs.* CERN scientist Albert de Roeck likened it to the discovery of electricity, when he said humanity could never have imagined its future applications. "What's really important for the Higgs is that it explains how the world could be the way that it is in the first millionth of a second in the Big Bang," de Roeck told AFP.* "Can we apply it to something? At this moment my imagination is too small to do that." Physicist Ray Volkas said "almost everybody" was hoping that, rather than fitting the so-calledStandard Model of physics -- a theory explaining how particles fit together in the Universe -- the Higgs boson would prove to be "something a bit different". "If that was the case that would point to all sorts of new physics, physics that might have something to do with dark matter," he said, referring to the hypothetical invisible matter thought to make up much of the universe. British physicist Peter Higgs smiles at a press conference on July 4, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) offices in Meyrin near Geneva. After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists said on July 4 they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass. "It could be, for example, that the Higgs particle acts as a bridge between ordinary matter, which makes up atoms, and dark matter, which we know is a very important component of the universe." "That would have really fantastic implications for understanding all of the matter in the universe, not just ordinary atoms," he added.* De Roeck said scrutinising the new particle and determining whether it supported something other than the Standard Model would be the next step for CERN scientists. Clarification could be expected by the beginning of 2013; definitive proof that it fitted the Standard Model could take until 2015 when the LHC had more power and could harvest more data. The LHC is due to go offline for a two-year refit in December that will see its firepower doubled to 14 trillion electronvolts -- a huge step forward in the search for new particles and clues about what holds them all together. De Roeck said he would find it a "little boring at the end if it turns out that this is just the Standard Model Higgs". CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/07/higgs-boson-will-unlock-great-mysteries-of-the-universe-era-of-new-physics-looming-weekend-feature.html
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Jul 10, 2012 12:01:08 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 10, 2012 12:01:08 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171408/Scientists-use-telescope-buried-8000ft-South-Pole-hunt-ANOTHER-mystery-particle.htmlWhat next after the Higgs? Scientists use huge telescope buried 8000ft under South Pole to hunt for ANOTHER mystery particle * World's biggest telescope to hunt for mysterious 'neutrinos' * Particles could help explain origin of universe * Mega-detector built 8,000ft under ice near South Pole * Machine took 10 years to build By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 10 July 2012 Scientists are using the world's biggest telescope, buried deep under the South Pole, to try to unravel the mysteries of tiny particles known as neutrinos The discovery could shed light on how the universe was made. The mega-detector, called IceCube, took 10 years to build 8,000ft below the Antarctic ice. At one cubic km, it is bigger than the Empire State building, the Chicago Sears Tower - now known as Willis Tower - and Shanghai's World Financial Center combined. The final Digital Optical Module (DOM) descends down a bore hole in the ice as it is deployed in the IceCube array, the world's largest neutrino observatory, built under the Antarctic tundra near the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Designed to observe neutrinos, which are emitted by exploding stars and move close to the speed of light, the telescope is attracting new attention in the wake of last week's discovery of a particle that appears to be the Higgs boson - a basic building block of the universe. ‘You hold up your finger and a hundred billion neutrinos pass through it every second from the sun,’ said Jenni Adams, a physicist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who works on IceCube. IceCube is essentially a string of light detectors buried in the ice through hot water drilling. When neutrinos, which are everywhere, interact in the ice, they produce charged particles that then create light, which can be detected. The ice acts as a net that isolates the neutrinos, making them easier to observe. It also protects the telescope from potentially damaging radiation. ‘If a supernova goes off in our galaxy now, we can detect hundreds of neutrinos with IceCube,’ Adams told reporters at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Melbourne. ‘We won't be able to see them individually, but the whole detector will just light up like a massive fireworks display.’ SEE MORE PICTURES & CONTINUE READING: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171408/Scientists-use-telescope-buried-8000ft-South-Pole-hunt-ANOTHER-mystery-particle.html#ixzz20FAiPiTM
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Jul 12, 2012 13:08:15 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2012 13:08:15 GMT -6
www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2119266,00.html?xid=tweetbut Interview TIME Talks to the Physicists Who Found the Higgs[/color] By Jeffrey Kluger Thursday, July 12, 2012 The Tevatron typically produces about 10 million proton-antiproton collisions per second. REIDAR HAHN / Fermilab It's not often that the world stops, cheers and generally goes nuts over a new discovery in particle physics. But that's what happened on July 4, when physicists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that they had at last confirmed the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, the particle that gives the universe mass. The Higgs suffuses an energy field that permeates space, and as particles move though it, they acquire a degree of mass that corresponds to their own energy level. Failing to find the Higgs would not only have meant that a new theory would have to be developed, but that the standard model of particle physics — one of the great pillars of the field for the past several decades — would fall apart. But the Higgs was indeed run to ground, thanks to work conducted at the massive new Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which straddles the border of Switzerland and France (read more about it in the new issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). Thousands of physicists from dozens of countries contributed to the work, but there are three undisputed leaders: Joe Incandela and Fabiola Gianotti, who led the two research teams that made the discovery; and Rolf Heuer, CERN's Director General. TIME spoke to them all by phone in Melbourne, Australia, where just three days earlier they had presented their momentous findings to the International Conference on High Energy Physics. CONTINUE READING INTERVIEW: www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2119266,00.html#ixzz20R8FIV2L
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Feb 1, 2013 0:20:14 GMT -6
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Feb 1, 2013 7:47:33 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Feb 1, 2013 7:47:33 GMT -6
And so America takes one more step into the abyss...... Makes one both angry and sad.
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Feb 1, 2013 9:32:50 GMT -6
Post by plutronus on Feb 1, 2013 9:32:50 GMT -6
And so America takes one more step into the abyss...... Makes one both angry and sad. Can't feed all those foreign Hispanic Nationals living in the US (illegally) on US Welfare, **AND** run two expensive foreign wars at the same time, while the oil baron$ $queeze u$ at the ga$-pump$. We just haven't got the money to do it all. The other countries of the world jealously control immigration and their borders. We are sliding into a third world economy because of it. United States of Mexico Yep.
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Feb 1, 2013 11:40:55 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2013 11:40:55 GMT -6
budget cuts to the military have already put a lot of people I know out of work.
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Feb 1, 2013 17:12:52 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Feb 1, 2013 17:12:52 GMT -6
It's always the useful things that get cut first. The waste of money nonsense keeps getting funded forever.
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Mar 14, 2013 11:41:13 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 14, 2013 11:41:13 GMT -6
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/9929535/Higgs-boson-scientists-confident-they-have-discovered-the-God-particle.html Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'[/color] Scientists are confident that they have discovered the long sought after Higgs boson, known as the “God particle”, which holds the physical fabric of the universe together. By Hayley Dixon 14 Mar 2013 Atom-smashing: scientists are confident that the collisions within the £2.6 billion particle collider at CERN revealed the elusive Higgs boson Photo: CERN CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, announced today that after extensive testing it was “looking more and more” like the particle which they discovered last year was the Higgs boson. Finding the Higgs plugs a gaping hole in the Standard Model of physics, the theory that describes all the particles, forces and interactions that make up the universe. Today the collaborating scientists from ATLAS and CMS announced their results at the Moriond Conference, in La Thuile, Italy, further confirming the “magnificent” discovery. “The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is.” said CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela. It remains an “open question” whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or a more exotic particle - possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted by other theories. Although CERN says that discovering what type of Higgs it is could take some years, it is believed to be the Standard Model particle predicted by Edinburgh professor Peter Higgs 50 years ago. "The beautiful new results represent a huge effort by many dedicated people. They point to the new particle having the spin-parity of a Higgs boson as in the Standard Model. We are now well started on the measurement programme in the Higgs sector," said ATLAS spokesperson Dave Charlton. Whether or not it is a Higgs boson is demonstrated by how it interacts with other particles, and its quantum properties. A Higgs boson should have no spin, and in the Standard Model its parity – a measure of how its mirror image behaves – should be positive. The latest set of experiments tested both the spin and parity, and showed that there was no spin and positive parity. CONTINUE READING: www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/9929535/Higgs-boson-scientists-confident-they-have-discovered-the-God-particle.html
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Mar 14, 2013 11:48:32 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 14, 2013 11:48:32 GMT -6
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May 15, 2013 12:35:41 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 15, 2013 12:35:41 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/update-the-higgs-boson-and-a-new-physics-could-make-the-speed-of-light-possible.htmlMay 15, 2013 The Higgs Boson and a 'New Physics' --"Could Make the Speed of Light Possible"The Daily Galaxy via Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), CERN, and 2012 AFP Scientists hailed CERN's confirmation of the Higgs Boson in July of 2012, speculating that it could one day make light speed travel possible by "un-massing" objects or allow huge items to be launched into space by "switching off" the Higgs. CERN scientist Albert de Roeck likened it to the discovery of electricity, when he said humanity could never have imagined its future applications. CERN physicists hope that the "new physics" will provide a more straightforward explanation for the characteristics of the Higgs boson than that derived from the current Standard Model. This new physics is sorely needed to find solutions to a series of yet unresolved problems, as presently only the visible universe is explained, which constitutes just four percent of total matter. "The Standard Model has no explanation for the so-called dark matter, so it does not describe the entire universe – there is a lot that remains to be understood," says Dr. Volker Büscher of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to help explain why matter has mass, was hailed as a huge moment for science by physicists. In July of 2012, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, announced the discovery of a new particle that could be the long sought-after Higgs boson. The particle has a mass of about 126 gigaelectron volts (GeV), roughly that of 126 protons. The new evidence came from an enormously large volume of data that has been more than doubled since December 2011. According to CERN, the LHC collected more data in the months between April and June 2012 than in the whole of 2011. In addition, the efficiency has been improved to such an extent that it is now much easier to filter out Higgs-like events from the several hundred million particle collisions that occur every second. The existence of the Higgs boson was predicted in 1964 and it is named after the British physicist Peter Higgs. It is the last piece of the puzzle that has been missing from the Standard Model of physics and its function is to give other elementary particles their mass. According to the theory, the so-called Higgs field extends throughout the entire universe. The mass of individual elementary particles is determined by the extent to which they interact with the Higgs bosons. "The discovery of the Higgs boson represents a milestone in the exploration of the fundamental interactions of elementary particles," said Professor Dr. Matthias Neubert, Professor for Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics and spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA at JGU. CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/update-the-higgs-boson-and-a-new-physics-could-make-the-speed-of-light-possible.html
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