Cern Experiment Video Part 1

[peelie]

http://www.collidingparticles.com/

 

[nubie]

http://www.collidingparticles.com/


Thanks, watching now. I love this science stuff.

My first thought was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw

Anybody else think that? (skip to about 1:10 if you are new to Another World )

 

[crasherball]

just for my basic understanding what higgs are:

so this higgs-thingy is like the smallest unit of all (at least the smallest unit "we" know of)

let met get this straight - I always sucked in all science-classes except for math:

u can only "see" small things if u use a microscope
if u have a light-microcope, u hunt a light-atom trough the thing u wanna see....
ur problem is: if the thing u wanna see, is so small, that the light-atom cant get trough (cuz the light is just too big).

thats where you use a electron-microscope,
that basicly does the same. only it hunts an electron trough your object....
and the electron then "tells" you, the things it "groped"/"touched"

so now these higgs are suppose to be the smallest thing ever, right?
that means, you can't hunt anything trough it, because there is noting smaller then the smallest thing, right?

and thats the reason why it wont ever possible to "see" those higgs, right?

 

[peelie]

we can only 'directly' 'see' via light microscopes, other microsopes such as electron microscopes we can only see 'indirectly' (via computer interpretation) same with the accelerator we can only infer existance of higgs particle from the output of collisions.

admittedly the stuff happening at cern is the 'sexy' science for want of a better word, shame other sciences can't attract that sort of funding!

 

[nubie]

we can only 'directly' 'see' via light microscopes, other microsopes such as electron microscopes we can only see 'indirectly' (via computer interpretation) same with the accelerator we can only infer existance of higgs particle from the output of collisions.

admittedly the stuff happening at cern is the 'sexy' science for want of a better word, shame other sciences can't attract that sort of funding!

I don't know, car crashing science seems pretty fun, and near space flights. But you are probably right, think of the money it takes to run a 27k loop!

 

[sam fisher]

just for my basic understanding what higgs are:

so this higgs-thingy is like the smallest unit of all (at least the smallest unit "we" know of)

let met get this straight - I always sucked in all science-classes except for math:

u can only "see" small things if u use a microscope
if u have a light-microcope, u hunt a light-atom trough the thing u wanna see....
ur problem is: if the thing u wanna see, is so small, that the light-atom cant get trough (cuz the light is just too big).

thats where you use a electron-microscope,
that basicly does the same. only it hunts an electron trough your object....
and the electron then "tells" you, the things it "groped"/"touched"

so now these higgs are suppose to be the smallest thing ever, right?
that means, you can't hunt anything trough it, because there is noting smaller then the smallest thing, right?

and thats the reason why it wont ever possible to "see" those higgs, right?

*loads shotgun*

 

[nickspoon]

just for my basic understanding what higgs are:

so this higgs-thingy is like the smallest unit of all (at least the smallest unit "we" know of)

let met get this straight - I always sucked in all science-classes except for math:

u can only "see" small things if u use a microscope
if u have a light-microcope, u hunt a light-atom trough the thing u wanna see....
ur problem is: if the thing u wanna see, is so small, that the light-atom cant get trough (cuz the light is just too big).

thats where you use a electron-microscope,
that basicly does the same. only it hunts an electron trough your object....
and the electron then "tells" you, the things it "groped"/"touched"

so now these higgs are suppose to be the smallest thing ever, right?
that means, you can't hunt anything trough it, because there is noting smaller then the smallest thing, right?

and thats the reason why it wont ever possible to "see" those higgs, right?

*loads shotgun*

The Crasherball school of scientific thought never really took off for some reason.