protons do not have infinitely high speeds.

11/22/2009 8:12:42 PM

the protons will reach speeds just shy of light which is infinately fast for the purpose of the analogy.

11/22/2009 8:19:15 PM

"infinitely fast" means that the light would be traveling fast enough for it to be in all places in the universe at the same time. "just shy of the speed of light," while fast, is still massively slower than "infinitely fast."

11/22/2009 8:30:13 PM

which is why it was an analogy. For cars, anything near the speed of light is comparable to "infinately fast" cmon people. its not that hard. (particle physics,not rocket science)

11/22/2009 8:35:15 PM

the speed of light is a finite quantity. how is that comparable to INFINITE

11/22/2009 8:45:52 PM

because she's making an analogy. that whole car thing really isn't working out for her, though.

11/22/2009 8:47:45 PM

that's like saying Warp 1 and Warp 10 are comparable. HA!

11/22/2009 8:48:33 PM

^ I was trying so hard not to make that comparison.

11/22/2009 8:49:45 PM

Looks like life isn't working out too well for that mambalsr person

11/22/2009 9:09:10 PM

Quote :

"because she's making an analogy trolling"

11/23/2009 12:13:55 AM

power went out today but it stayed at 1.9 kelvin. any updates on the time scale?

12/2/2009 7:59:41 PM

making progress.

at what energy level do hypothesize they need to get to for a collision to make the higgs boson?

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12/9/2009 5:12:47 PM

uncertain, likely somewhere between 3.5 and 7 Tev

12/9/2009 5:16:52 PM

Still alive.

Sounds like the plan is to bring back online soon and run it at 7 TeV for an extended period of time (18 months or so), and then take it offline for an extended period of time to ramp up to 14 TeV.

I won't comment beyond that such a time-line brings initiating the 14 TeV stream right around December 2012

http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100203.html

2/3/2010 1:08:32 PM

BOOM!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/03/30/large.hadron.collider/index.html?hpt=T1

3/30/2010 8:14:28 AM

and we are still alive! hallelujah!

3/30/2010 8:24:13 AM

^prove it.

3/30/2010 8:29:30 PM

they discovered a paleoparticle: http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html

4/1/2010 9:38:29 AM

right.

4/1/2010 10:24:54 AM

it's true! teh intarweb told me so.

4/1/2010 10:26:17 AM

God particle signal is simulated as sound

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10385675.stm

6/23/2010 10:32:26 PM

i wonder if they have a gift shop...i want to stop by when i'm there in a few months

6/24/2010 8:02:51 AM

6/24/2010 8:37:38 AM

^ but i want to get OFFICIAL LHC junk!

6/24/2010 9:06:43 AM

but will it go "infinately fast"

6/28/2010 10:21:14 AM

^x5 Holy shit! That second one sounds a lot like the intro to the old Rod Serling TV show Night Gallery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pToHSFdwk

6/28/2010 10:31:36 AM

quagmire, they do have a gift shop. its not as cool as it should be, but its there

6/28/2010 6:11:42 PM

http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/index.html

ATLAS Pop-up book!

6/28/2010 7:30:29 PM

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/post_87.html

Quote :

"Europe’s particle physics laboratory, CERN, is taking a cautious approach on persistent rumors (see, for example, the ViXra blog) that two experiments at its Large Hadron Collider have independently found evidence for the Higgs particle with a mass of 125 GeV – right in the ballpark predicted by the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs is a missing piece of the standard model thought to endow all other particles with mass. Detailed rumors at Peter Woit’s blog Not Even Wrong say that ATLAS has observed a signal of a Higgs particle at 125 GeV with a significance level of 3.5 sigma – with 3 being enough to claim evidence but 5 needed for a discovery, while CMS has seen one at 2.5 sigma. As Geoff Brumfiel’s article “Higgs Hunt Enters Endgame” reports, prior results from particle colliders have all but ruled out the Higgs in the range below 114GeV and above 141GeV. Physicist Bill Murray, who is leading ATLAS’s search for the Higgs, tells Nature that he cannot comment on the latest rumors. That is because work is still in progress to analyze 5 inverse femtobarns of data that have amassed over the summer with a final decision to approve the current analysis scheduled for a meeting on Wednesday, December 7. Murray also notes that such approvals are often delayed. An additional level of management approval will also be necessary before the result can be released at a seminar scheduled for 13 December. "We are moving forward in our understanding of the data and approval process but nothing will be solidly releasable for a while," Murray says. In an email to CERN staff reported on Lubos Motl’s blog, director-general of CERN, Rolf Heuer (pictured), appears to manage expectations, noting that a seminar scheduled on 13 December to release the results officially will be unlikely to reveal conclusive evidence for the Higgs particle. “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.” he says. ViXra comments that a Higgs at 125Gev is good news for particle physics, because it is favored by supersymmetric models that would imply other, heavy particles may be found. A heavier Higgs would have shifted up the masses of those too high to be accessible by the LHC"

12/4/2011 10:17:02 PM

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"Physicist Bill Murray,"

I stopped reading there.

12/8/2011 8:24:58 PM

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12/8/2011 9:44:10 PM

it's a boson! maybe

7/4/2012 6:48:34 PM

Well this surely proves there is no God.

7/4/2012 11:35:39 PM

I watched a documentary on thing last night called Particle Fever, pretty cool movie. I fell asleep halfway through though. Has thing discovered anything mind blowing? The thread seems to have died.

12/1/2016 1:43:35 PM

They're pretty sure they nailed down the Higgs boson. The criteria for mind-blowing probably is sensitive to your passion for particle physics.

12/1/2016 3:24:45 PM

Yeh I'm sure that the discoveries mean more to somebody who is familiar with physics. Has the LHC been considered a success thus far, or have the discoveries been somewhat underwhelming to scientists? I know it hasn't changed my life.

12/1/2016 3:56:01 PM