Higgs Boson Particle
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Higgs Boson Particle
I am going to post a link to a short article from the New York times. I am sure there is more information on this by now but I just wanted to get the discussion going.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/scien ... wanted=all
Its my sincere hope that we don't see a bunch of national governments throwing tuns of cash into developing bigger colliders in order to try and rush some useful extraction of a particle to the market place. It is an interesting discovery and could lead to amazing things but i think the world has lots of other issues it needs to be focusing its energy and effort on right now.
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Eventually, if we can lower the cost of how to isolate and produce Higgs bosons, then I'm speculating that the manipulation of Higgs fields is a potential gateway to anti-gravity technology. Just off the top of my head that would revolutionize every form of transportation from automobiles to interplanetary spacecraft.
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As for the claim that we have better things we could be spending money on, I agree. Of course, the expensive particle collider and the search for evidence of the existence of the Higgs Boson are only an example of the many ways in which interesting science is heavily funded. Just look at the NASA budget. I would rather see much of this funding and effort go to things like saving the 18,000 children who die from world hunger every single day. On the other hand, there is an argument that these discoveries do help in the provision of valuable public services in the long run, such as in preparing to save us from an asteroid collision or to deal with some hypothetical if unlikely alien invasion or just by being the eventual catalyst to technological advancements that indirectly lead to improvements in more important stuff like feeding hungry children or treating sick people.
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The geological record shows evidence of no less than seven extinction-level events in Earth's distant past. It is most likely a question of when, not if, another comet from the Oort Cloud intersects with earth's orbit right about the time our planet is in its path. If 1000 years from now--thanks to research set in motion today--we can shoot a "Higgs beam" at the comet to reduce its mass and thereby deflect its orbit, then our descendents will still have a reason to figure out how to feed hungry children and treat sick people.On the other hand, there is an argument that these discoveries do help in the provision of valuable public services in the long run, such as in preparing to save us from an asteroid collision or to deal with some hypothetical if unlikely alien invasion or just by being the eventual catalyst to technological advancements that indirectly lead to improvements in more important stuff like feeding hungry children or treating sick people.
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The questions that follow from this strange concept has to be asked. What keeps this god particle together? What gives it the mass to examine? Is there another allusive particle waiting to be found or is it a concept beyond redemption.Belinda wrote:Without the Higgs field, as it is known, or something like it, all elementary forms of matter would zoom around at the speed of light, flowing through our hands like moonlight. There would be neither atoms nor life. (NYT) Thanks for the reference to the NYT article which also refers the Higgs boson as cosmic molasses. I am left with the primitive and uneducated impression that the Higgs boson is that which makes things out of chaos. Is this impression correct enough? If not I will have to shut up.
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Dark matter depends on the belief in the BB. It was invented to secure an expanding universe. So one concept that has not been proven attempts to support more and more concepts till we have layer upon layer of false conclusions.Grecorivera5150 wrote:My intuition is telling me that this particle is related to the concept of dark matter in some way. I imagine this particle as a membrane that extracts dark matter as its forced into this universe and extracts regular matter as it is forced into the dark matter universe. Almost like the interplay between oxygen and carbon dioxide on our planet but on an intergalactic scale.
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I like your view. I have long felt intuitively that the metaphors of Dark Matter and the new Dark Energy are being bandied about too literally, and that they are a much more fundamental aspect of space-time, existing in concert with every atom of normal matter, rather than just the "things" they are usually posited to be to explain gravitational aberrations.
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