CERN - Latest update in the search for the Higgs boson (July 4th 2012) (FULL TALK)

Introduction: 0:02:24
CMS talk: 0:04:30
ATLAS talk: 0:53:32
Misc. remarks: 1:43:28
Comments by Peter Higgs et al.: 2:01:25

This is a recording I made of the original CERN live webcast. For more information and the official release, visit http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1459565.

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[nutsbutdum]

Could somebody tell me if this could happen in the future(btw I'm aware that my idea is so far fetched, but hang with me). Here we go:

If we manage to precisely map the Higgs field, could we "turn off" the mass for the particles interacting in it, by just avoiding it? Practical application: faster rockets which don't need to increase their mass proportionately with the amount of energy needed(E=MC2).

[TheRealBlackspawn]

I'm not a physicist, but I would guess that since the Higgs field is a scalar field and therefore "fills" all of space (is present at each single point in space), there is no way to avoid it or "turn it off".

[Groeneroest]

thank you for posting

[Van der Fucker]

thanks for uploading this memorable footage.



[CMVersluijs]

The CMS guy seems nervous... quite logical of course if you have to present this memorable happening :)

[1tabligh]

The atheist Delusion!

We can raise precisely the same objection against them and ask them, "If we follow the chain of causality back, we will ultimately reach the primary cause. Let us say that cause is not God, but matter. Tell us who created primary matter. You who believe in the law of causality, answer us Ws: if matter is the ultimate cause of all things, what is the cause of matter?

You say that the source of all phenomena is matter-energy; what is the cause and origin of matter-energy?"

[AgentX93]

Thank you for uploading one of these magnificent moments in mankinds history.

[7xXx666xXx7]

Its more easy to warp the space-time and travel to near 10 times the speed of light and the equation it's E^2 = (Mc^2)^2 + (P+c)^2. Anyway its nearly impossible to do that... we had to control plank energy...

[callasexperience]

They need to pretend they found something when in fact It doesn't exist, just to get more cash for funding... In years we will laugh.or cry at this gigantic waste of money they should pull the plug as it is so obvious they haven't got a clue it is so embarassing 

[ohyez96]

although i must say that if we take the rocket and close it inside a shield made of a specific material(a material which i suppose can be discovered if we uncover the features and capabilities of the boson) that will be affected by the the boson but will not allow it to pass through it. The shield will move at the same speed as the rocket since the rocket is inside it but the material has to withstand the speed of the rocket

.I am not a scientist, just making assumptions

[Inverth Inverth]

But how... If it can happen, the rockets will destructure into a wide-distributed thing that we cannot imagine today. We will have to enter a very hot state of a limited volume of subspacetime like that in the early universe, to strip off the inner energy(mass) of the particles, so it will be very hard to move the subspacetime through the universe.