LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson

The wait is over: new submitter Roger W Moore (among many, many other submitters) writes "The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have just announced the discovery of a new particle which is consistent with a Standard Model Higgs boson. There is still a lot of work to do to confirm whether this really is the Higgs, and if so whether it is a Standard Model Higgs, but this is a major result."

Massive

[burisch_research]

This is a weighty finding.

Re:Massive

[L4t3r4lu5]

This is a weighty finding.

It's massive.

Was the mass .1313131313... ?

[Mal-2]

Glad to see we may not be a Type 13 planet [tvtropes.org] after all...

Fake!

[RockMFR]

Obviously this is a grand conspiracy by the Europeans to distract us from what really matters today - blowing shit up! If they really wanted to celebrate the Fourth, they would have blown up CERN.

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[jampola]

Dr Emmet Brown called. His response. "Whoa.... This is heavy!"

Re:Massive

[jampola]

That's what she said.

Sorry, 6 beers in and I couldn't help myself :)

Great

[Chrisq]

Now the "god particle" is proved everyone has to believe in Jesus

From The Telegraph

[jampola]

"Based on the Cern results alone there appears to be less than one chance in a million that this is fake, which is roughly the same probability as flipping a coin heads-up 21 times in a row."

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[tmosley]

That sounds disturbingly like aether theory.

Re:Dr. Higgs himself said it best...

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess, this isn't "earth-shattering" news simply because it didn't happen in the US? Whether you like it or not, this is the greatest scientific discovery in the last 20 years, and it happened in europe. And the best thing is that it's july 4th, haha!

Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson

[Higgs Bosun]

So, they might be mistaken. They've probably just detected me and got confused.

Re:I found it last week.

[erdos-bacon sandwich]

The legendary Higgs Boson is in my pants, and it feels great!

Scientists also report the particle is much smaller than expected

Patent applied for

[Harold Halloway]

Already Apple have patented the new particle, on the basis that it gives the iPad mass so they must have invented it.

Re:I found it last week.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's also not a Hadron.

Re:It is the mass

[Cow Jones]

[the Higgs field] ... then fills the universe and binds to particles giving them mass.

I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[Fixer40000]

More importantly, with increased knowledge of the subatomic mechanics of mass we may still be on track for hoverboards and flying cars by 2015!

Hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, you're right that I didn't get the reference. In retrospect it is obvious...

In my defence I'd like to offer that on a regular day about 67% of my brain activity goes to suppressing the memory of JarJar "MeesaSuckSoBadly" Bincks.

Re:It is the mass

[Elldallan]

Hey at least The Higgs Boson sounds better than Midichlorians.

Re:No, not really

[Anonymous Coward]

Just in case you, or someone else, didn't get the reference:

The Force [wikia.com]

How is explaining a Star Wars reference on slashdot considered informative? That's like explaining what a bullet is on a gun forum.

Now, explain how to dress, how to coordinate an outfit or what breasts feel like... that would be informative

Your audience, know it.

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[Anonymous Coward]

Because energy was never equivalent to mass and Einstein's only contribution to humankind was the photoelectric effect.

Re:No, not really

[jd2112]

My the Higgs Bison be with you.

Re:No, not really

[ColdWetDog]

My the Higgs Bison be with you.

No thanks. They are large, bad tempered animals. Much like politicians.

And they smell just about the same.

Higgs bosom

[PPH]

I've been trying to get a peek at Cindy Higgs' bosom since high school.

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[flargleblarg]

Electron volts per eye roll?

Re:Dr. Higgs himself said it best...

[Deadstick]

This is an achievement in experimental methodology.

In other words, this is Leonard making Sheldon's head explode.

Re:No, not really

[toriver]

Ah, do not so readily compare the two. Bison give us milk, meat, and hides. Politicians - not so much.

Re:It is the mass

[cheesecake23]

[the Higgs field] ... then fills the universe and binds to particles giving them mass.

I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?

(Score:6, Awesome)

Re:No, not really

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

I for one would love a politician leather coat. Do I get to select the politician it is made from?

Re:No, not really

[JimboFBX]

You know when you grab a woman's breast... and it's... and you feel it and it feels like a bag of sand when you touch it...

Re:Found at 125 GeV

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Mass and energy are the same damn thing, ever heard of Einstein?

Yeah, that's Doc Brown's dog, what does he have to do with this?