CERN Scientists Looking for the Force 284
An anonymous reader writes "National Geographic has a fascinating article on the God Particle, which can help explain the Standard Model and get us closer to explain the Grand Unified Theory. The obligatory Star Wars-angle summary is even better: 'CERN's scientists, the fine people who brought us the W and Z particles, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter.'"
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That's all fine and good... (Score:5, Funny)
...but shouldn't they be focusing on something much more worthwhile?
Like a working model of a lightsabre. Now that'd be really cool...
Atheism (Score:5, Funny)
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They will inevitably come to the dark side.
I misread that. (Score:2, Funny)
Hadron...
Dammit, too much time on Slashdot
Experimental particle physics sounds like fun... (Score:5, Funny)
From a linked article:
That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.
and you get to do it with really expensive, shiny toys :)
*A wave of magnetic flux passes* (Score:5, Funny)
proper translation (Score:3, Funny)
the Large Hadron Collider, they are building
brought us the W and Z particles, the fine people did
anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn web pages, they brought us as well, they did
to discover something even cooler, they are
the Force, it is
that Force, yes, it is
carries a field, it does, the particle
interacts with every living or inert matter, it does
the Higgs boson, it is
call it so, physicists do
Well, good bye little blue planet ... (Score:4, Funny)
(for the mods, its a reference to the scifi show Lexx
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Re:Here's a question: what if it's not there? (Score:3, Funny)
I could get behind that...
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Re:That's all fine and good... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Here's a question: what if it's not there? (Score:3, Funny)
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Living or inert? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Space doesn't curve (Score:1, Funny)
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Fun with spelling (Score:3, Funny)
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Fixed that for you.
Hey! HEY! (Score:2, Funny)
You wanna knock off the fat jokes!
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Re:That would be incredible. (Score:3, Funny)
Sort of.
No Higgs would be the kick in the ass humans need right now - we're on our own, and we're not getting out alive. So stop acting like greedy little fucks and get down to the facts so we can survive in this patchwork disaster of a universe.
RS