Hunting for the Higgs

A film about the elusive Higgs Boson -- Dr Tara Shears enlists the help of students from the University of Liverpool to explain what the Higgs Boson is and why scientists are building the biggest, most complicated experiment in history to prove it exists. For more information, visit www.labreporter.com

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Science & Technology

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• Higgs
• Boson
• LHC
• Large
• Hadron
• Collider
• Tara
• Shears
• Space
• Atom
• Alom
• Shaha
• Particle
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Science
• CERN

[grok68a]

Thanks God we are continuing to receive money taken from the taxes paid by idiots like you, who understand NOTHING about what really science is, and how the science is the best expression of the human being.

Thanks again for your money !

[JanusChan]

Such things are called 'hypotheses', not facts or fantasy. Hypotheses are there to be tested and that's why the LHC was built. They never said that higgs existed, but it's an idea formed from calculations and facts that we already know. That's why it's to be tested. Things that are known as truths in science were once untested hypotheses like these, based on things already known. You don't seem to know what experimenting really is, so please do not post such a mindless thing.

[tehmaninblack]

I had to wipe my glasses there for a second when viewing the thumbnail

"Hunting for the [*]iggs"

What?!

[Tribefull]

@BoardwalkAstronomer ...pinnacle of energy efficiency, since after you accellerated an object you could reduce it's friction to zero no matter what it was traveling through.

[Tribefull]

@BoardwalkAstronomer Ha. I thought of that too. The problem is, even if we could generate a "Higgs Deflection Field", which would theoretically allow whatever was contained within the field to appear to the external world as if it were massless, how would you propel it? You can't exert force on something that you cannot interact with. It would only retain whatever momentum it had at the time the field was generated. But, even if we couldn't travel at the speed of light, it sure would be the...

[ClamCrunchy]

This is incredible.

[Throred]

Thank you for this.

[Shakespeare1612]

@BoardwalkAstronomer The fundamental particals that make up YOU only stay organized because they interact with Higgs particles according to what this is saying, so to repel them away would be a bad idea. Your head would no longer be attached to your feet, or to itself for that matter. Maybe if you were inside a bubble of regular space-time some how, and you could repell Higgies away from the outer shell of the bubble only.

[FUCKOFFYOURGAY]

i love cern!

[velgirtas]

Yeah, Tim Greenshaw really is one of the most popular lecturers in the uni of Liverpool :) . The lecturer with exam results, in my opinion, is Uta Klein.

[kcunit333]

maybe the higg particle is god???

[h3rbaltea]

@BoardwalkAstronomer

That's if the Higgs particles exist.