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  • P Pete OHanlon

    CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

    *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

    CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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    Johnny J
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    CERN is a cool place. Went there with my class back in high school. Slept soundly through all the lectures and almost got lost in the underground corridors. Had a blast (no, not that kind of a blast!)

    Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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    • P Pete OHanlon

      CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

      *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

      "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

      CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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      Can you imagine the riotous party all those physicists are likely to have? No, nor can I.

      --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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        Can you imagine the riotous party all those physicists are likely to have? No, nor can I.

        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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        Let's hope they've got lots of coke - and no, I don't mean the white, powdery stuff... ;)

        Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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        • P Pete OHanlon

          CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

          *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

          "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

          CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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          Ian Shlasko
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          Well, that about wraps it up for Earth... As soon as they manage to calculate the mass of the Higgs Boson particle, their super-colliders will reach critical mass, causing an implosion that collapses the entire planet to the size of a pea. At least, that's what I learned from Lexx :)

          Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
          Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

            *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

            CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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            :thumbsup: Some of the comments at the bottom make my head hurt. "Or... the Higgs doesn't exist and mass is a function of the vacuum interaction of matter particles, and the "footprint" of the Higgs is actually a shadow of the quantum vacuum. Wouldn't this also be consistent with the fact that non-matter particles have properties of mass yet are for all intents and purposes, massless? What other explanation could account for both phenomenon?"

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            • D Dalek Dave

              Can you imagine the riotous party all those physicists are likely to have? No, nor can I.

              --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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              Are you kidding? Sometimes they have Turing Cake[^] !

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                :thumbsup: Some of the comments at the bottom make my head hurt. "Or... the Higgs doesn't exist and mass is a function of the vacuum interaction of matter particles, and the "footprint" of the Higgs is actually a shadow of the quantum vacuum. Wouldn't this also be consistent with the fact that non-matter particles have properties of mass yet are for all intents and purposes, massless? What other explanation could account for both phenomenon?"

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                What are "non-matter particles"?

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                  What are "non-matter particles"?

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                  viaducting wrote:

                  What are "non-matter particles"?

                  Small things nobody cares about. (That's what she said!) And in case that unintentionally sounded hostile... It's a joke... "non-matter"... As in they don't matter... Just shut up and laugh :)

                  Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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                    What are "non-matter particles"?

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                    Photons and neutrinos come to mind. Basically everything that isn't part of matter (like quarks and electrons) and in this case probably also not antimatter.

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                    • I Ian Shlasko

                      Well, that about wraps it up for Earth... As soon as they manage to calculate the mass of the Higgs Boson particle, their super-colliders will reach critical mass, causing an implosion that collapses the entire planet to the size of a pea. At least, that's what I learned from Lexx :)

                      Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
                      Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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                      NormDroid
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                      You may as well pull your pants down now and kiss your ass goodbye.

                      Software Kinetics Wear a hard hat it's under construction
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                      • N NormDroid

                        You may as well pull your pants down now and kiss your ass goodbye.

                        Software Kinetics Wear a hard hat it's under construction
                        Metro RSS

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                        Ian Shlasko
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                        Wouldn't want to prematurely traumatize my coworkers :)

                        Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

                          *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                          "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                          CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                          wizardzz
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                          Out of all sites, this is blocked by net nanny!

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                          • P Pete OHanlon

                            CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

                            *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                            CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                            Some say the collider may cause a black hole, but I am not conCERNed.

                            Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                              What are "non-matter particles"?

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                              bosons. Fermions are matter particles because you can't have 2 of them at the same place and the same time.

                              Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

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                              • I Ian Shlasko

                                Well, that about wraps it up for Earth... As soon as they manage to calculate the mass of the Higgs Boson particle, their super-colliders will reach critical mass, causing an implosion that collapses the entire planet to the size of a pea. At least, that's what I learned from Lexx :)

                                Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
                                Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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                                bVagadishnu
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                                Ian Shlasko wrote:

                                Well, that about wraps it up for Earth...

                                Sounds eerily similar toThe Nine Billion Names of God[^]

                                Schenectady? What am I doing in Schenectady?

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                                • P Pete OHanlon

                                  CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

                                  *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                  CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                                  I'm really interested to see if they have something this time.

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    CERN boffins are to announce something that is consistent with a Higgs boson at a conference tomorrow[^].

                                    *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                    CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                                    I saw this as well, this morning. Interesting and boring, all at the same time.

                                    "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
                                    "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)

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                                      Photons and neutrinos come to mind. Basically everything that isn't part of matter (like quarks and electrons) and in this case probably also not antimatter.

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                                      Neutrinos are matter.

                                      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                        I saw this as well, this morning. Interesting and boring, all at the same time.

                                        "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
                                        "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)

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                                        Chris Maunder
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                                        I'm sure they say that about your work, too. Except they probably leave out "interesting". ;)

                                        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                          Neutrinos are matter.

                                          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                          Apparently by some definitions they are. I didn't know that (I also though they were mass-less, but that seems to have been disproven). I also didn't realized there wasn't a consensus on the definition of matter. (I had always heard "has mass and occupies space", but apparently not everyone agrees on that one.) :thumbsup:

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