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Higgs boson has been found. Scientists 99.999% sure


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#16 vetSpyder

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 17:50

View Postprotocol7, on 04 July 2012 - 18:49, said:

So does McDonalds.
i larfed


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Posted 06 July 2012 - 03:30

I feel the same today as I did yesterday and I probably shouldn't. :p

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 14:57

yeah Enron, from what i gather this is basically the Eezo of the real world...it can alter mass because it's like the chassis undet the whole universe...or something like that? Doc wlll know.

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 22:44

View PostAstra.Xtreme, on 05 July 2012 - 17:45, said:

That was proven false. Math error.

Last I remember it wasn't proven anything, it was just a bunch of people who claimed it was probably a math error.

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 22:50

View PostTom, on 04 July 2012 - 16:29, said:

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

99.999% is good enough for me. :p

Hmmm ... that 0.0001% is still bugging me though. Seriously, I'm not totally sold on this. Mind you, I don't know jack about subatomic physics.

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 22:53

View PostPhouchg, on 04 July 2012 - 18:56, said:

It kicks people out of airlocks :D

ROTFL "What are doing Dave? ... Dave ... I'm afraid Dave ... "

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 22:57

View PostColin McGregor, on 05 July 2012 - 14:56, said:

does this mean it proves the big bang theory and disproves the 7 day?

The Big Bang Theory is true, I've seen it on the telly. As for the 7 day theory, wasn't it actually 6 days & then [insert deity of your choice] took the day off? LOL

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 22:59

View PostDaveski, on 08 July 2012 - 22:50, said:

Hmmm ... that 0.0001% is still bugging me though. Seriously, I'm not totally sold on this. Mind you, I don't know jack about subatomic physics.

In some circles that's still a huge margin of error.

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 23:01

I just found the Higgs Bison:

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 23:03

View PostGrowled, on 08 July 2012 - 22:59, said:

In some circles that's still a huge margin of error.

I should imagine it's a pretty big margin at the quantum level.

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 23:15

in science there is no such thing as 100% certainty

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:29

Higgs Boson walks into a church.
The priest comes up to him and says, "I'm afraid your kind is not welcome here".
Higgs Boson replies, "But, without me, you can't have mass..."

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 10:49

View Postmudslag, on 08 July 2012 - 23:15, said:

in science there is no such thing as 100% certainty

Of course, there's! It's called quantitatively analyzed empirical evidence!

Put an apple into a basket, add another one, and you'll be 100% certain the sum is two.

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 12:03

View PostzhiVago, on 12 July 2012 - 10:49, said:

Of course, there's! It's called quantitatively analyzed empirical evidence!

Put an apple into a basket, add another one, and you'll be 100% certain the sum is two.

What if there is another apple growing within one of them?

Or if you cover the basket? There is no scientific way of knowing whether you have two apples or not.

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 12:11

View PostzhiVago, on 12 July 2012 - 10:49, said:

Of course, there's! It's called quantitatively analyzed empirical evidence!

Put an apple into a basket, add another one, and you'll be 100% certain the sum is two.

Unless multiverse.

I'm surprised how much press the Higgs-Boson is getting. We all know mass exists, and while explaining how it exists is a valuable scientific pursuit, and the large hadron collider is pretty-nifty... none of this has much relevance to the average person.