Inflaton, Mother of the Universe 163
quantalm writes "Forget the god particle, we're talking about the universe's particle mother. The theory of supersymmetry has rolled out two new ideas about the particle that puffed spacetime up from smaller than a proton to bigger than a soccer ball: it could be the 'unified particle' of Grand Unified Theories or a smaller-scale version that could be tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."
inflaton? (Score:5, Funny)
i don't know about unifying electromagnetism and gravity, but it seems like someone just unified economics and quantum mechanics
just tell us how to avoid the deflaton particle for the next few years
Re:inflaton? (Score:5, Funny)
If those two particles meet, they don't cancel out - they actually cause a rift in the space-time continuum that is so catastrophic that it convinces people to take out sub-prime home equity loans.
Re:I love scientists. (Score:4, Funny)
I'm Sparticles!
Re:inflaton? (Score:5, Funny)
So that's where the money went: Into subprime space.
Re:I love scientists. (Score:2, Funny)
No, I'm Sparticles!
This just in from LHC.... (Score:4, Funny)
"Oops. Sorry about those extra universes that just leaked out."
Re:inflaton? (Score:5, Funny)
There might or might not be a $20 bill in my wallet; I won't know for certain until I look for it?
Freudian slip (Score:3, Funny)
My initial reading of the subject:
Inflation of Mother, like a Universe.
you've just described the quantum mechanics behind (Score:3, Funny)
the creation of the moron particle
Re:Freudian slip (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I love scientists. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Has anything to come out of string theory ... (Score:5, Funny)
I think that there are some really interesting predictions of how gravity should behave on a submicron scale which could rule out (or in) large number of potential string theories.
Of course, while I can imagine that gravity could be tested on a submicron scale when I start to try and imagine what kind of experiment could be constructed that actually did that I start to flail about and gape and make little clucking noises. I expect there are a fair number of physics fellas doing the same.
Re:Freudian slip (Score:5, Funny)
Your mom is so inflated, your dad had to roll her in flour and find the wet spot.
Nah, you need to go full on physics here.
"You mom is so inflated, your dad had to roll her up like a Calabi-Yau manifold and look for the Casimir effect!"
Thank you! Am I right? Huh? Huh? Am I? Huh?
Oh, shut up.
Re:Freudian slip (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Has anything to come out of string theory ... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes: We have conclusive proof that string theory leads to publications. :-)
Re:inflaton? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but property in subprime space is cheeeeeep!
Re:Freudian slip (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, accept...
Oh shit!
*runs from the grammar nazis*
Re:inflaton? (Score:4, Funny)
In subprime space, nobody can hear you default.
Re:I love scientists. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:inflaton? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:inflaton? (Score:4, Funny)
There might or might not be a $20 bill in my wallet; I won't know for certain until I look for it?
No $20 bill... But my cat just died.
Thanks, a lot, jerk.
Re:Inflationary theory (Score:5, Funny)
I should be clear: My experience is with scalar field inflation with a quadratic potential
The world needs a lot more people who say things like this. :D