paulfish4570
Veteran
i heard it was a plain ol' x100 on macro mode ... 
Aristophanes
Well-known
Nikon calls them 'micros', so can't be them.
Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
Those particles can be found in Washington DC or any state capital....
Sparrow
Veteran
... driving round and round the beltway and occasionally crashing into each other?
Richard G
Veteran
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.
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
Veteran
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
Malcolm
"If the Higgs Boson Particle did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it"
Ampere, 2012
Ampere, 2012
Sparrow
Veteran
... Voltaire's not the force he was is he?
greyelm
Malcolm
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
Veteran
... yes, my capacity is impeded too
colyn
ישו משיח
Is this a rangefinder camera or a SLR camera?????
zuiko85
Veteran
More bad jokes;
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .
oftheherd
Veteran
bobby_novatron
Photon Collector
This is a singer named Rebecca Higgs. Does this mean I've found the Higgs Bosom?
Peter_wrote:
Well-known
+1
Mrs. Schrödinger to Mr. Schrödinger: "What the hell did you do to the cat? It looks half dead!"
Sparrow
Veteran
... so Schrodinger's cat hides in Descartes' metaphorical tree just when Aenesidemus walks past and doesn't notice
Bill58
Native Texan
It's over my head........
BobYIL
Well-known
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
Ferroequinologist
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
Ferroequinologist
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.