Translation please?
It's like physics nerds getting a perfect 100 when rolling for epic loot after a weekend-long raid.
This is a much better translation.
Afaik, nothing. Different issue. Not to mention that those 4 issues are also not very related.If this occurred, what's it say about the possibility of gravitons, dark matter, the future of the universe, and FTL?
Nothing. It's unlikely there'll actually be any experiments about dark matter or energy until we have a better understanding of both. "Unknown stuff we observe in the universe" doesn't exactly lend itself for easy experimental examination.What about dark energy,
As fictional as Klingons. That is, general relativity does allow for the theoretical existence of them (as does biology for Klingons) but there's no observed data to suggest there are any.white holes,
Afaia, still no-one has come up with an experiment that could be used for confirmation or falsification of string theory.string theory, and the existence of other dimensions?
Afaik, nothing. Different issue. Not to mention that those 4 issues are also not very related.
Nothing. It's unlikely there'll actually be any experiments about dark matter or energy until we have a better understanding of both. "Unknown stuff we observe in the universe" doesn't exactly lend itself for easy experimental examination.
As fictional as Klingons. That is, general relativity does allow for the theoretical existence of them (as does biology for Klingons) but there's no observed data to suggest there are any.
Afaia, still no-one has come up with an experiment that could be used for confirmation or falsification of string theory.
Well, yes, once experimenting with the Higgs boson becomes possible, there is quite a lot that could be learned. But so far it's just about detecting one. Since the existence of the higgs boson is predicted by the standard model, actual confirmation is not going to produce a lot of new knowledge, it just confirms the accuracy of the model (further).
You have managed to say what it means without saying what it means at all.
Let's rephrase the question:
Why would anyone not with a PhD in physics care? What practical real-world application does observing a Higgs boson event benefit?
I don't have a PhD in anything, and I think it's great, because science is cool!Why would anyone not with a PhD in physics care?
Science is often done without any explicit, practical end result in mind. But it often yields such applications that no-one had really thought of.What practical real-world application does observing a Higgs boson event benefit?
My point was that the current experiments at the LHC aren't so much about getting new information as about confirming which of several extant theories are correct. Unless the result are completely out of the expected ranges, all the implications have already been thought through theoretically.So its not just detecting it. It's getting its size (GeV) and structure (one or more?). That will have a significant impact on all the theories that have grown wild since 1994.
Okay. I'm bad at physics. No, scratch that. I'm bad, period. Here's how I read it:Over at the Large Hadron Collider they may have seen evidence of the decay of the Higgs boson.
Ah, okay. That would be quite epic, indeed.It would confirm (or not) the entire standard model, which covers what exactly all the stuff that you see everywhere all the time actually is.
In terms of cooking, it would be equivalent to letting you know whether you were always using too much salt or not.
In terms of driving, it would let you know whether your oil pressure gauge was measuring the oil pressure.
My point was that the current experiments at the LHC aren't so much about getting new information as about confirming which of several extant theories are correct. Unless the result are completely out of the expected ranges, all the implications have already been thought through theoretically.
Let's rephrase the question:
Why would anyone not with a PhD in physics care? What practical real-world application does observing a Higgs boson event benefit?
Okay. I'm bad at physics. No, scratch that. I'm bad, period. Here's how I read it:
The First ZZ Event In CMS!!
As to possible Higgs particles, the plain Standard Model predicts a single neutral one and no charged ones, while the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model predicts 3 neutral ones and 1 charged one with charges +1 and -1. So even if this recent event is due to a Higgs particle, it can't decide between the SM and the MSSM --there are some fudge factors that can be adjusted to get a Higgs particle with the "right" mass.