Cidersomerset
14th March 2013, 21:20
Don't worry if you do not understand this , as Ion would say scientists have not
got a clue about physics...LOL..This cheers me up at least, because i do not
have to get bogged down in the 'scientific babble'.....I know reality is not what
we have been taught..!!!
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BBC ONLIN....
The BBC's Pallab Ghosh: "The mystery of how the universe works is even greater"
Theres a theory in sub atomic physics that only explains 4% of the universe,called
'The Standard Model'......theres a little vid on link....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205
14 March 2013 Last updated at 10:15
LHC cements Higgs boson identificationBy Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61348000/jpg/_61348096_computerscreenpretalk_reuters.jpg
The story of the precise nature of the particle announced in July is slowly pressing
ahead Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say the particle outlined in July 2012 looks
increasingly to be a Higgs boson.The Higgs, long theorised as the means by which
particles get their mass, had been the subject of a decades-long hunt at the world's
particle accelerators.Yet there is still some uncertainty as to whether the particle is
indeed a Higgs, and if so, what type it is.Results at the Moriond meeting in Italy suggest
strongly that the particle's "spin" is consistent with a Higgs.Teams from the two Higgs-
hunting experiments, Atlas and CMS, analysed two-and-a-half times more data than
were available in July in an effort to pin down not only the particle's existence, but also
something about its character.All that is conclusively established is that the particle is in
the family of bosons, but researchers had been careful since July to describe it
as "Higgs-like".
'New story'
The zoo of subatomic particles are characterised by properties including their "spin"
and "parity" - and the precise establishment of these properties for the new particle will
determine if it is beyond doubt the long-sought Higgs.
What is more, theories predict that a number of different types of Higgs may exist.
The BBC's Pallab Ghosh: "The mystery of how the universe works is even greater"
The simplest form - that which fits neatly into the existing Standard Model of particle
physics - would surely shore up the theory, but the possible existence of more "exotic"
versions of the particle would open exciting new vistas in science.
"This is the start of a new story of physics," said Tony Weidberg, Oxford University
physicist and a collaborator on the Atlas experiment.
"Physics has changed since July the 4th - the vague question we had before was to see
if there was anything there," he told BBC News.
"Now we've got more precise questions: is this particle a Higgs boson, and if so, is it
one compatible with the Standard Model?"
The results reported at the conference - based on the entire data sets from 2011 and
2012 - much more strongly suggest that the new particle's "spin" is zero - consistent
with any of the theoretical varieties of Higgs.
"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear
that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know
what kind of Higgs boson it is," said CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela. As is often the
case in particle physics, a fuller analysis of data will be required to establish beyond
doubt that the particle is a Higgs of any kind. But Dr Weidberg said that even these
early hints were compelling.
"This is very exciting because if the spin-zero determination is confirmed, it would be
the first elementary particle to have zero spin," he said.
"So this is really different to anything we have seen before."
Even more data will be required to explore the question of more "exotic" Higgs particles.
A popular but as-yet unsubstantiated theory called supersymmetry suggests there
should be as many as five Higgs particles - a notion that will have to remain speculative
at least until new data are acquired after the LHC's two-year shutdown for
refurbishment.
The Standard Model and the Higgs boson
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61348000/gif/_61348406_higgs_standard_mod_464.gif
• The Standard Model is the simplest set of ingredients - elementary particles - needed
to make up the world we see in the heavens and in the laboratory
• Quarks combine together to make, for example, the proton and neutron - which make
up the nuclei of atoms today - though more exotic combinations were around in the
Universe's early days
• Leptons come in charged and uncharged versions. Electrons - the most familiar
charged lepton - together with quarks make up all the matter we can see; the
uncharged leptons are neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter
• The "force carriers" are particles whose movements are observed as familiar forces
such as those behind electricity and light (electromagnetism) and radioactive decay (the
weak nuclear force)
• The Higgs boson came about because although the Standard Model holds together
neatly, nothing requires the particles to have mass; for a fuller theory, the Higgs - or
something else - must fill in that gap
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205
====================================================
Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe..THE ROYAL INSTITUTE..
RwdY7Eqyguo
Published on 18 Jan 2013
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists
dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as
CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving,
incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.
Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-
making forces of insight, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs search and how
its discovery opens a door into the mind-boggling domain of dark matter and other
phenomena we never predicted.
Watch the event Q&A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aom5Si...
got a clue about physics...LOL..This cheers me up at least, because i do not
have to get bogged down in the 'scientific babble'.....I know reality is not what
we have been taught..!!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BBC ONLIN....
The BBC's Pallab Ghosh: "The mystery of how the universe works is even greater"
Theres a theory in sub atomic physics that only explains 4% of the universe,called
'The Standard Model'......theres a little vid on link....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205
14 March 2013 Last updated at 10:15
LHC cements Higgs boson identificationBy Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61348000/jpg/_61348096_computerscreenpretalk_reuters.jpg
The story of the precise nature of the particle announced in July is slowly pressing
ahead Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say the particle outlined in July 2012 looks
increasingly to be a Higgs boson.The Higgs, long theorised as the means by which
particles get their mass, had been the subject of a decades-long hunt at the world's
particle accelerators.Yet there is still some uncertainty as to whether the particle is
indeed a Higgs, and if so, what type it is.Results at the Moriond meeting in Italy suggest
strongly that the particle's "spin" is consistent with a Higgs.Teams from the two Higgs-
hunting experiments, Atlas and CMS, analysed two-and-a-half times more data than
were available in July in an effort to pin down not only the particle's existence, but also
something about its character.All that is conclusively established is that the particle is in
the family of bosons, but researchers had been careful since July to describe it
as "Higgs-like".
'New story'
The zoo of subatomic particles are characterised by properties including their "spin"
and "parity" - and the precise establishment of these properties for the new particle will
determine if it is beyond doubt the long-sought Higgs.
What is more, theories predict that a number of different types of Higgs may exist.
The BBC's Pallab Ghosh: "The mystery of how the universe works is even greater"
The simplest form - that which fits neatly into the existing Standard Model of particle
physics - would surely shore up the theory, but the possible existence of more "exotic"
versions of the particle would open exciting new vistas in science.
"This is the start of a new story of physics," said Tony Weidberg, Oxford University
physicist and a collaborator on the Atlas experiment.
"Physics has changed since July the 4th - the vague question we had before was to see
if there was anything there," he told BBC News.
"Now we've got more precise questions: is this particle a Higgs boson, and if so, is it
one compatible with the Standard Model?"
The results reported at the conference - based on the entire data sets from 2011 and
2012 - much more strongly suggest that the new particle's "spin" is zero - consistent
with any of the theoretical varieties of Higgs.
"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear
that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know
what kind of Higgs boson it is," said CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela. As is often the
case in particle physics, a fuller analysis of data will be required to establish beyond
doubt that the particle is a Higgs of any kind. But Dr Weidberg said that even these
early hints were compelling.
"This is very exciting because if the spin-zero determination is confirmed, it would be
the first elementary particle to have zero spin," he said.
"So this is really different to anything we have seen before."
Even more data will be required to explore the question of more "exotic" Higgs particles.
A popular but as-yet unsubstantiated theory called supersymmetry suggests there
should be as many as five Higgs particles - a notion that will have to remain speculative
at least until new data are acquired after the LHC's two-year shutdown for
refurbishment.
The Standard Model and the Higgs boson
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61348000/gif/_61348406_higgs_standard_mod_464.gif
• The Standard Model is the simplest set of ingredients - elementary particles - needed
to make up the world we see in the heavens and in the laboratory
• Quarks combine together to make, for example, the proton and neutron - which make
up the nuclei of atoms today - though more exotic combinations were around in the
Universe's early days
• Leptons come in charged and uncharged versions. Electrons - the most familiar
charged lepton - together with quarks make up all the matter we can see; the
uncharged leptons are neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter
• The "force carriers" are particles whose movements are observed as familiar forces
such as those behind electricity and light (electromagnetism) and radioactive decay (the
weak nuclear force)
• The Higgs boson came about because although the Standard Model holds together
neatly, nothing requires the particles to have mass; for a fuller theory, the Higgs - or
something else - must fill in that gap
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205
====================================================
Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe..THE ROYAL INSTITUTE..
RwdY7Eqyguo
Published on 18 Jan 2013
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists
dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as
CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving,
incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.
Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-
making forces of insight, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs search and how
its discovery opens a door into the mind-boggling domain of dark matter and other
phenomena we never predicted.
Watch the event Q&A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aom5Si...