Higgs Boson information from Wired's site

[paulfish4570]

i heard it was a plain ol' x100 on macro mode ... 🙂

 

[Aristophanes]

Must be one helluva macro lens they have at CERN. I'm sure it's Nikon.

Nikon calls them 'micros', so can't be them.

 

[Al Patterson]

Bozons found finally, heh? ... the question now whether the Morions, Idions and Imbeccillions will be found..

Those particles can be found in Washington DC or any state capital....

 

[Sparrow]

Those particles can be found in Washington DC or any state capital....

... driving round and round the beltway and occasionally crashing into each other?

 

[Richard G]

Loved your mathematicians joke Al.

I must say that Peter Higgs lends just a little dignity to this very expensive discovery, a dignity which is seriously eroded by the fact that the thing is called a boson. I had hoped the Large Hadron Collider might find something more grandly named. I wonder what is the German for boson — maybe that has a more impressive sound.

 

[Richard G]

Nope. Ger. Higgs-Boson. But if you call it a particle, which some say you shouldn't (Stephen Wolfam does in his long article for Wired) then it is Higgs-Teilchen. Or the Higgs-Feld for Higgs field, and best of all, Higgs-mechanismus for Higgs mechanism.

 

[greyelm]

"If the Higgs Boson Particle did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it"

Ampere, 2012

 

[Sparrow]

"If the Higgs Boson Particle did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it"

Ampere, 2012

... Voltaire's not the force he was is he?

 

[greyelm]

... Voltaire's not the force he was is he?

No, there's quite a lot of resistance to him these days. I tend to insulate myself against such thoughts, I don't like shocks at my age.

 

[Sparrow]

No, there's quite a lot of resistance to him these days. I tend to insulate myself against such thoughts, I don't like shocks at my age.

... yes, my capacity is impeded too

 

[colyn]

Since you know why the f stop numbers are what they are and you can still expose film and make a 50 year old camera work, you might be asked about the Higgs Boson. This Wired article and its links is excellent.

Is this a rangefinder camera or a SLR camera?????

 

[zuiko85]

More bad jokes;

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .

 

[oftheherd]

will this help us to create a better camera bag?

(someone had to ask...)

Sorry, no. Only straps! 😀

 

[bobby_novatron]

This is a singer named Rebecca Higgs. Does this mean I've found the Higgs Bosom?

 

[Peter_wrote:]

Loved your mathematicians joke Al.

+1

More bad jokes;

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .

Mrs. Schrödinger to Mr. Schrödinger: "What the hell did you do to the cat? It looks half dead!"

 

[Sparrow]

... so Schrodinger's cat hides in Descartes' metaphorical tree just when Aenesidemus walks past and doesn't notice 😀

 

[Bill58]

It's over my head........

 

[BobYIL]

This is a singer named Rebecca Higgs. Does this mean I've found the Higgs Bosom?

We can't know, you're the one found it.. what does it feel like?

 

[Al Patterson]

... driving round and round the beltway and occasionally crashing into each other?

No, they are in state houses, congress and on K street...

(Although, having driven the beltway, I can imagine the beltway as the LHC with cars instead of protons.)

 

[Al Patterson]

More bad jokes;

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .

Nice one! My favorite science jioke though is the following:

Rene Descarte walks into a bar.

The bartender asks him if he would like a drink.

Rene says 'I think not", and promptly disappears.