I read that they still need to confirm that this new particle has a spin value of 0 before we official confirm that it is the Higgs Boson. Probably is though, so hurrah for the completion of Standard Model of particle physics.
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Seen it hundreds of times on this forum...People thinking that when you physically say the contraction of "should have" into "should've" it sounds like "should of" so that's what they type...Idiots.
They'll probably want to confirm that it has the right charge and parity and all kinds of other vastly more obscure things that the Standard Model predicts about it before they're satisfied.
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This one always irked me. The contractions I can chalk up to typos and carelessness, but that phrase was just poorly thought out.
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Realistically though, the only way you could stamp out those kinds of mistakes would be to institute totalitarianesque reeducation camps.
And even well-educated people occasionally have slips--I catch myself speaking solecisms all the time (though I usually self-correct...aloud...it confuses some people when they see me doing it)
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As I understand the results, it was surmised that it is the "particle they were looking for" due to how massive it is at at the energy state they were looking. So the properties do go largely unconfirmed.
But, based on where they found their results, they are pretty dang sure (apparently).
Eat all the cupcakes because...
THE HIGGS BOSON IS ITS OWN ANTIPARTICLE!
I do this, as well. I can write a 10 page paper in a few hours with no mistakes but can't have an IM convo longer than 10 minutes without a mistake. Something about the internet makes them stupid.
To call it the God particle is a bit misleading. It doesn't disprove God.
The Higgs particle is a component in the Higgs' field which is a theorized field in the standard model that through various Lie couplings — depending on the particle — attributes the particles with mass. It's all very basic, and I'll be glad to answer any question you have regarding the matter. Because I like flexing my intelligence.
But it would be comfortable if there was experimental verification of it. If we've actually discovered it then I'm curious as to the method employed, I'm looking forward for the article.
Ahh, I didn't know that that was a factor, I don't usually venture outside the Video Game section of this forum (only came here as it is fun seeing how non-physicsists reacted to this).
CERN says they know what they found is a boson as well which narrows things down a lot. A few physicists have said that there are dozens of candidates that are bosons with roughly that mass but the Higgs is considered the most likely due to its pedigree.
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Oops, there was supposed to be an "also" in there. With the mass and the type of particle they were able to narrow it down to the Standard Higgs, several Higgs variants, or a few fringe ideas.
Its huge and its the right kind of particle so they're fairly confident. It has to be 133 since its 125 GeV and protons has a mass of less than 1GeV. In looking this up I found that the particle the found is SEVEN times as massive as a water molecule. That's insane.
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I was curious what you two meant with 122 and 133, then I Googled it and found out that it Wikipedia describes the energy of these particles in proton masses of those numbers.
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