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Anonymous10/10/25, 17:17No.16811358Higgs bozone
why was it so important?
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Anon10/10/25, 17:32No.16811361
Y u massies so slow. KEK! -- Le Photon
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Anon10/10/25, 17:58No.16811378
Higgs never called it "the god particle". He wanted to call his book "the god damned particle", and the publisher changed it to "the god particle". This is where it came from.It gives things mass.
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Anon10/10/25, 21:16No.16811509
Can these be isolated and used to power devices in place of electrons?
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Anon10/10/25, 23:24No.16811584
It's discovery verified the existence of the Higgs field.
Contrary to popular belief: it's not the source of all mass, nor does it simply "slow down" massive particles.As for mass: most is actually the potential energy stored in composite particles and has little to do with any Higgs interaction.
As for speed: as objects travel through the Higgs field, energy from the field is imparted on the moving object. This results in an effective increase in mass which means it requires more energy to accelerate further. For the same reason, a faster object is harder to slow down as more of this "Higgs energy" must be sapped from the moving body.
So while the Higgs field isn't necessarily responsible for mass in the relitivistic sense, it is resonsible for inertia which for most purposes can be conflated with mass without issue.
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Anon10/11/25, 03:13No.16811735
It was the very last piece of the Standard Model, that had been predicted mathematically in the 70s, but needed for tech to catch up to verify it in the lab.It was cool, but was all but confirmed before the official announcement. On the one hand, it was great b/c it showed the Model to be correct within itself, but it was also the last new/novel insight into the "field"(get it?), and the "Particle Physics" crowd has been stuck for the last 50 years, or so.The Standard Models works very well for many things, but we know it's not 100% correct under all conditions, but nobody knows how to fix it, or even where to start. String Theory seems to be a bust. The colliders are just giant welfare projects, now that the Higgs has been confirmed. We still have absolutely no idea what gravity is fundamentally, but we understand it "well enough" to do cool stuff, which is all some folks care about.
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Anon10/11/25, 04:50No.16811776
Because they love patting themselves on the back
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Anon10/14/25, 11:15No.16815919
It proved God exists by finding a trace of him manipulating reality, hence God particle.
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Anon10/14/25, 23:32No.16816773
it wasn't
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Anon10/15/25, 00:09No.16816789
Ah yes, the Higg's "Bo-zone"......That's where OP goes to meet his male lovers on the weekends....and weekdays.
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Anon10/15/25, 00:26No.16816810
Higg's Bozo
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Anon10/19/25, 20:10No.16821028
they needed something to justify getting a toy worth $20bil funded by tax cattle.
now that they have had such a massive success, they just need a bigger toy for a couple trillion to make the next very important discovery.