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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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There was excitement on CNN and BBC this morning about the finding of "Higgs Boson"
Now who is Higg and when did he/she lose his/her boson?
What is a boson anyway and is it related to bosom?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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I hear it is the Ngai Fa Fa Particle. The molasses of the Universe. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/11/2008 Posts: 2,306
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The BBC was yesterday discussing if this discovery will affect the belief in God. What crap! Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgement...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,328 Location: Masada
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Robinhood wrote:The BBC was yesterday discussing if this discovery will affect the belief in God. What crap! They claimed its a god-like particle, whatever they mean!  Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/5/2010 Posts: 2,061 Location: Nairobi
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The Higgs boson "gives" mass to atoms, and therefore all things. It is all high science, a tour de force for physicists but will not amount to anything for the rest of humanity.
The only useful thing for wider humanity that CERN has done is the invention of the World Wide Web (not to be confused with the Internet, that was discovered by DARPA).
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/23/2009 Posts: 2,375
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quicksand wrote:The Higgs boson "gives" mass to atoms, and therefore all things. It is all high science, a tour de force for physicists but will not amount to anything for the rest of humanity.
The only useful thing for wider humanity that CERN has done is the invention of the World Wide Web (not to be confused with the Internet, that was discovered by DARPA). When Einstein formulated his E=mc^2 it was said that these were fanciful flights of theoretical physicists that would never be put to practical use. Less than 40 years later it resulted into the atomic bomb. You dont know what this Higgs Boson will result into. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt...
-Mark Twain
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/5/2010 Posts: 2,061 Location: Nairobi
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bkismat wrote:quicksand wrote:The Higgs boson "gives" mass to atoms, and therefore all things. It is all high science, a tour de force for physicists but will not amount to anything for the rest of humanity.
The only useful thing for wider humanity that CERN has done is the invention of the World Wide Web (not to be confused with the Internet, that was discovered by DARPA). When Einstein formulated his E=mc^2 it was said that these were fanciful flights of theoretical physicists that would never be put to practical use. Less than 40 years later it resulted into the atomic bomb. You dont know what this Higgs Boson will result into. @bkismat ...the atomic bomb didn't turn out so well for humanity, especially the Japanese. Bad analogy there Sir. That being said, the mathematical properties and behaviour of the Higgs boson have been known and proven for many many years now, actual proof may be of little value - I stand to be collected though .  ... However, CERN has been smashing particles together for decades now, with little of their research finding its way to mainstream use, other than to prove theories that only 50 people in the whole world understand - For the billions of cash they use, the results are not justifiable. That is why I remain sceptical
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 10/13/2011 Posts: 660
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i thought it was a new brand of ugali maize flour.
seriously tho, these CERN scientists were conducting some experiment last year that afew scientists feared could have led to the end of the earth as we know it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,328 Location: Masada
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Njung'e wrote:Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. What do you mean they have discovered? This particle was there even before these guys were born! Its like saying that Speke discovered Lake Victoria as if the Luos living on the shore were not human beings! Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/17/2006 Posts: 133
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Impunity wrote:Njung'e wrote:Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. What do you mean they have discovered? This particle was there even before these guys were born! Its like saying that Speke discovered Lake Victoria as if the Luos living on the shore were not human beings! Once upon a time they believed the earth was flat...and discovery that it wasn't sent peolple's minds spinning..the journalists are shallow enough to bring God into this that way...humans ARE STILL attempting to scratch the surface of discoveries...relax tuko mbali babo with these higgs
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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Impunity wrote:Njung'e wrote:Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. What do you mean they have discovered? This particle was there even before these guys were born! Its like saying that Speke discovered Lake Victoria as if the Luos living on the shore were not human beings! The correct position is that they FOUND the Higgs Boson...
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/12/2008 Posts: 1,178
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My neighbour must have heard the wrong thing then. I overheard him telling his cousin how the discovery of Eve's bottoms is likely to cure marital problems as the drug once taken will ensure all women have similar bottoms hence men will have nothing to stare at. Very misguided fellow my neighbour is  him
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/17/2006 Posts: 133
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dnn wrote:Impunity wrote:Njung'e wrote:Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. What do you mean they have discovered?
This particle was there even before these guys were born!
Its like saying that Speke discovered Lake Victoria as if the Luos living on the shore were not human beings! Once upon a time they believed the earth was flat...and discovery that it wasn't sent peolple's minds spinning..the journalists are shallow enough to bring God into this that way...humans ARE STILL attempting to scratch the surface of discoveries...relax tuko mbali babo with these higgs ..and why do they call the teens the discovery age when they realize the 'objects' have more electicity and magnetic fields..
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/14/2011 Posts: 661
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chiaroscuro wrote:Impunity wrote:Njung'e wrote:Higgin Boson is simpler than that....and it has nothing to do with God....It's a sub-nuclear particle that simply gives electrons,neutrons and protons,mass......If it's true though that it's been found,it will help in more serious scientific breakthroughs in years to come.Congratulations are in order to thoes great physicists. What do you mean they have discovered? This particle was there even before these guys were born! Its like saying that Speke discovered Lake Victoria as if the Luos living on the shore were not human beings! The correct position is that they FOUND the Higgs Boson... Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle http://news.yahoo.com/eu...particle-100214540.html
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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Impunity wrote:
What do you mean they have discovered?
Careful.I used the word FOUND!And to the skeptics,did the discovery of electricity,the wheel or four-stroke engine end there? Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/3/2010 Posts: 1,797 Location: Kenya
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Njung'e wrote:Impunity wrote:
What do you mean they have discovered?
Careful.I used the word FOUND!And to the skeptics,did the discovery of electricity,the wheel or four-stroke engine end there? You mean elec was not created in eden? cant imagine a world without it. I may be wrong..but then I could be right
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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digitek1 wrote:You mean elec was not created in eden? cant imagine a world without it. It wasn't easy .Volta discovered the battery and was able to generate a current....the bulb came in 79 years later  ....and oh!,just like Higgs Boson,electricity existed all along.It was only found! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/26/2012 Posts: 1,182
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To find something for the first time is to DISCOVER.
Had anyone found the Higgs Boson before?
To a fool, the deeds of the wise one,are usually,foolishness.
Credit where it's due, congratulations to these guys.
A lot of the gadgets we see around today are solely coz of the basic principles/discoveries made centuries ago.
A time to use Higgs Bison shall come.
The atomic bomb killed,but nuclear energy and some medical procedures serve humanity more,day in day out.
You can't just say Einstein's works were in vain.
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