Congratulations!! Im very excited, 40 years of ressearch and here we have it. It is not 100% certain if it is the Higgs particle, but they're still checking data and figuring it out. I heard it could be used to describe the gravitational force.
Anyways the chances on finding it must have been really small. Good job LHC :D

@Wanhope: They should have asked me months ago.I had a big box of the fuckers in the loft, and binned them. I may have one or two left down the sofa or such

@Anonymous: reportedly 99.999% sure, if that means anything to you

@Anonymous: But still 0,1% unsure :O
Jk
They wouldn't pop the champagne if the numbers were'nt significant enough.

@Anonymous: How does it produce the field?

@Anonymous: Heh details ^^ nah i didn't think it through
100,09% sure, would be greater though

so if matter that has no contact with a higgs field exists, it has no mass? Therefore no gravity and can behave like light without effecting things around it or being effected b them despite that it exists? Like a Ghost?

@Anonymous: as much as you figure the light emitting from your monitor a ghost, yes

@Anonymous: Must be a big field cause i haven't seen pigs flying yet or ghostly people visiting me.

@Anonymous: false measurement what

@Anonymous: I believe that they've found the Higgs boson, but http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110923-neutrinos-speed-of-light-particles-cern-physics-einstein-science/ this was not correct i heard afterwards.

@Anonymous: In that case they said that they have detected a neutrino traveling faster then light but they think it is an error.

@Anonymous: Yep and that the instruments have failed to be understood some times, which makes you think if they've made a mistake again. I personally think that they've got it right and every physicist ive heard so far agrees on that. Sorry if i have made you doubtful. :P

@Anonymous: Oh, so really it's just other physicists being skeptical.

@Anonymous: THAN

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@Anonymous: Less keyboard distance to type then.

@Anonymous: Well, "cat" requires less keyboard distance than "dog", but do you understand why it might be important to differentiate the two?

@Anonymous: You managed to understand what I ment. So there was no problem.

@Anonymous: I am a parrot and i know how to speak.

@Anonymous: Implying parrots actually understand what they're saying...

@Anonymous: Implying you know what animals think..