Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing

holy_calamity writes "The Large Hadron Collider is in trouble again. It will start work sometime in spring 2008, not November this year as planned. The delay has been blamed on an 'accumulation of minor setbacks,' and comes on top of a 'design fault' that saw breakdown of magnets supplied by the competing Fermilab. Yesterday Slate nicely rounded up increasingly loud rumors among physicists that Fermilab may already have seen the Higgs particle, the 'holy grail of particle physics' the LHC was build to find."

Re:Search ... get interesing

[Trigun]

"the LHC was build to find"

Looks like everyone could use some proof reading. Or is this a quantum leap in tenses?

Oblig. LEXX reference

[Eudial]

So, they're messing about with the Higgs Boson--that means the planet is about to collapse into the size of a pea, if I remember things correctly.

Re:god?

[mashade]

Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing

I don't know what God has to do with it, but what's this Interesing stuff, and where can I get it?
tags: interesting ;)

Not

[OSS_ilation]

as interesing (sic) as the search for a Slashdot spellchecker!

Just how big...

[zmollusc]

... are these large hadrons anyway? Couldn't they have built a small prototype machine for colliding tiny hadrons first, then scaled up when they had got it all sorted out? Idiots!

Re:god?

[LWATCDR]

"God"? What has god got to do with this?"
Well it could be the use of God in the scientific way meaning that all other particles come from this one particle.
Or it could be using the term God as in the creator of all things which is pretty much the same as the first.

So the real question is are you ask because you are an extreme theist nut case that takes offense at the idea of a God particle because it is an affront to God, or are you an Extreme atheist whack job that takes offense at any use of the word God because it infringes on not having the idea of a supreme being mentioned in your presence?

Notice that is really is hard to tell the nut job from the wack job.

Re:god?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Wikipedia article says it was mentioned in the movie "Solaris". Anyone remember what this particle did in the movie?

It replaced SunOS?

Re:Search ... get interesing

[Aqua_boy17]

I wonder if /. needs a proof reader for it's editor?

You must bee knew hear.

Re:God particle

[HexRei]

But Jesus and the Bible and Heaven.

Re:Parent is -1 Flamebait material

[Critical Facilities]

From Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com]:

Main Entry: Joke
Pronunciation: 'jOk
Function: noun
1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : KIDDING c : PRACTICAL JOKE d : LAUGHINGSTOCK 2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter -- often used in negative constructions

Instead of caturdays, how about proofreadays?

[Anonymous Coward]

For some reason I instantly imagine a picture of Cmdr. Taco, captioned in big block letters, "Me can has proof reader?" And a picture of Cowboy Neal captioned, "im in yer posts, mesin up yer speling"

Moo ha ha!

[HiggsBison]

I'm getting rather bothered by continuously seeing these /. posts implying that scientists are so non-cooperative. The last few stories about LHC have even nearly insinuated that it was somehow Fermilab's fault that there were design issues with the magnet structures, almost as if the mistakes had been intentional.

The scientists are not to blame. Fermilab has a herd of bison. We fiddled with the magnet structures. We're not so dumb as we look.

Re:So

[maxwell demon]

photons are the Devil's work.

Exactly. After all, there's a reason why he's named Lucifer.

Re:god?

[MyLongNickName]

Call me a nut wack job.

Okay. You are a nut wack job.

Re:"interesing"?

[maxwell demon]

The t is very unstable and quickly decays. Therefore it didn't survive long enough to make it to the front page.

Re:god?

[Citizen of Earth]

They are undoubtedly talking about the still-only-theoretical Higgs boson

The fools! Most type-13 planets destroy themselves when they attempt to determine the mass of the Higgs boson and accidentally shrink the planet to the size of a pea.

Re:god?

[steveo777]

Reminds me of a quote from The Tick.
Interviewer: Can you destroy the Earth.
The Tick: Egad, I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!

The Grail particle?

[CFD339]

Tell him we've already got one. It's very nice.

I bet the guy who modded you down is gay...

[Anonymous Coward]

You left out:

[Turns to camera]
Dingo: Do you think this scene should have been cut? We were so worried when the boys were writing it, but now we're glad! It's better than some of the previous scenes I think.
Left Head: Our was better visually.
Dennis: Ours was committed, it wasn't just a string of pussy jokes.
Bridgekeeper: Get on with it.
Tim: Yes! Get on with it!
Army: Get on with it!
Dingo: Oh, thank you, thank you!
God: Get on with it!

Re:"interesing"?

[Xyrus]

Indeed. But it does occasionally merge with the h and e quarks. Thus the formation of "the" grammartron.

Apparently though, in an electromagnetic field the h and the e quarks can get reveresed forming "teh" anti-grammartron. This has also been noticed with the r and o quarks in the "pron" anti-grammartron and the strange spontaneous phase shift of the o->p quark in the "pwned" anti-grammartron.

~X~

Re:"What happens if I press this button?" "Don't..

[mdsolar]

Actually no, civilization progressed in three stages: 1) How can we eat?, 2) Why do we eat?, and 3) Where shall we have lunch?

The lack of space aliens is owing to the lack of eight star restaurants. They cannot abide hearing "Do you want fries with that?"

SETI requires closing down McDonalds which is why Clinton refused to fund it.