GreecePwns wrote:Well your claim that the Higgs boson has been found "15 times" is because the other 14 times were pure speculations or announcement of impending experiments, while this time is the annoucing of the result of an experiment which proves its existence with near 100% certainty. The response was a little overdone, but that was also because you've claimed this discovery has no use simply because you don't understand what use it has. Neither do I, nor does anyone here fully. The scientists involved understand the signficance of the discovery within their field, and it will be a time until there is a practical use of these facts are found. That's how it is with every scientific discovery, which is why the claim that this has no significance is wrong.
I think your thoughts on this topic really have to do with its nickname more than anything. Any scientific discovery that would once and for all disprove that which religions claim will be met with this sort of reaction by some. I truly wonder how the religious would react to events such as those depicted in Prometheus, whether they'd discard their beliefs or not.
I don't claim there is no use. I voted yes, because I do care. I understand a tad bit more than the average person, but I do not study or work in anything close to that field other than a few college courses and a genuine curiousity. I have searched out the LHC on my own over the years perhaps a hundred times, just to see what's going on lately, even when it wasn't in the news. It's interesting to me.
And you are right as it is about the nickname, and there is a reason there's always so much hype. That's what I really want to talk about.
