Originally posted by Thequ1ck Sorry for getting all serious on you guys but I don't like to be labelled.
If you don't like being labeled, refrain from using terms like "pseudo-science mumbo jumbo", "science sux", and "nerdy convention" in the presence of people with better scientific knowledge than you.
You only have yourself to blame for not being taken seriously.
KazetNagorra is a seasoned poster and someone I respect. Not just because he's Dutch which I find pretty cool. Unusual for him to go all 3rd kind on me like that. Seems to me that I seem to have a rep here for being a psycho that precedes any logical debate.
Disappointing that this crazy thread is the only discussion of the Higgs-like Boson news. What I found most interesting is that the particle appears to be almost exactly what was predicted, but not quite.
If they had discovered a new particle that massed and behaved exactly as predicted, there would be no surprises, no new data from which to propel further expansion and refinement of theory. Theory would have been perfect, with no handholds for further research.
If it were really off, well something totally weird would have happened.
But by being just barely off from predictions, the new particle provides new directions for research, which may lead to quicker advances. And it gives more evidence to base further theory on, rather than going further and further out on the limb of supposition (cough string theorists cough). I'm really excited. Now maybe we can finally have hovercars!
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnow Disappointing that this crazy thread is the only discussion of the Higgs-like Boson news. What I found most interesting is that the particle appears to be almost exactly what was predicted, but not quite.
If they had discovered a new particle that massed and behaved exactly as predicted, there would be no surprises, no new data from which ...[text shortened]... n (cough string theorists cough). I'm really excited. Now maybe we can finally have hovercars!
Higgs Boson
08 Jul '12 23:37
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