LHC announcement tomorrow

[john9blue]

i had no idea you were an expert in particle physics, scotty

[Lootifer]

I question why would he even post what he did?

Anyhoo, great news; I dont know a lot about it, but from what I gather this stuff should be able to tidy up the standard model a lot, which might even mean I can understand it one day

[notyou2]

He felt left out, all the attention shifted from his fabulous political exposees to a matter of matter, so he lashed out.

[Woodruff]

[Phatscotty]

The God particle is dead...

[john9blue]

The God particle is dead...

to be honest, dude, you're out of your depth in this thread. the probability of this discovery NOT being the god particle (assuming the data are correct) is astronomically small (much like the particle itself)

[Phatscotty]

which makes it at least a little bit funny...

[natty dread]

Please don't call it the "God particle". You'll sound like a moron.

[Phatscotty]

Please don't call it the "God particle". You'll sound like a moron.

how about the God Seed?

[john9blue]

Please don't call it the "God particle". You'll sound like a moron.

why not? that's the name people have given it.

if someone opens a pizza shop and people start calling it "god's pizzeria", am i a moron for calling it that?

[natty dread]

how about the God Seed?

even bigger moron (moroner?)

why not? that's the name people have given it.

um, no. that's the name morons use. people with brains call it higgs boson.

if someone opens a pizza shop and people start calling it "god's pizzeria", am i a moron for calling it that?

unrelated, but yes.

[john9blue]

if someone opens a pizza shop and people start calling it "god's pizzeria", am i a moron for calling it that?

unrelated, but yes.

so what does a given name have to do to meet Natty's Requirements To Surpass Idiocy?

[Phatscotty]

God is in......
His holy temple....

[natty dread]

so what does a given name have to do to meet Natty's Requirements To Surpass Idiocy

you're stupid

[nietzsche]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

[Phatscotty]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

[nietzsche]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

Hard to respect your points in this thread PS.

[Phatscotty]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

Hard to respect your points in this thread PS.

I'm just sick of being teased with discovering the HB every 9 months is all.

[john9blue]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

the discovery of this particle has literally nothing to do with whether a given god does or does not exist.

i don't think ancient religions said "why do subatomic particles have mass? clearly we need a deity to explain this"

[MeDeFe]

the discovery of this particle has literally nothing to do with whether a given god does or does not exist.

Good. Now think about this and you may come to understand natty's point of view.

[Haggis_McMutton]

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

Now you just have to show the scientists that supported it being called "the god particle".

Every single one I've heard objects to the name.

Might you be talking bullshit yet again scotty?

[AndyDufresne]

I remember listening to a science podcast a year or two ago talking about the Higgs Boson and the book that came out titled the 'God Particle' in the 1990s. The author wanted to nickname it the Goddamn Particle, but of course the publisher wouldn't let him put that on the cover of his book!


--Andy

[Woodruff]

It gives me a headache that newspapers use the term god's particle.. it pisses me off that they are the cause that stupid people stays stupid.

There is actually a higher conversation to be had in the realm of Science dealing a blow to Religion. Science and newspapers called it the God particle with the full intention of "science solving God"/explaining where we come from or why.

Gotta think like a scientist

Why is it that you believe scientists are anti-religion?

[john9blue]

the discovery of this particle has literally nothing to do with whether a given god does or does not exist.

Good. Now think about this and you may come to understand natty's point of view.

his point of view is that if someone calls this particle by the name given to it by many, many others, then they are a moron.

what if they decided to call it the "stamp-collecting particle"? would he adhere to his doctrine and rage against that name too?

i mean, i'd be fine if they called it "the satan particle", "the celery particle", or "the country music particle", and i dislike all of those things.

his "point of view" is idiotic and overly prescriptivist.

[Neoteny]

I think this calls for a truth serum and a military tribunal.