Higgs boson discovery – what next?
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Higgs boson discovery – what next?

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 04, 2012, 17:26
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With scientists having spotted a sub-atomic particle "consistent" with the Higgs boson or 'God particle', questions are being asked about the practical applications of the discovery.

The Higgs boson is thought to give all other matter its mass; it was predicted by the leading theory of particle physics called the Standard Model (SM). This model, however, doesn't predict the mass of Higgs boson, and so physicists have been searching a wide range of masses to spot it.

The new found particle has a mass that's around 130 times that of a proton, making it the most massive particle that exists - if the discovery is confirmed.

The confirmation of Higgs boson’s existence was important as it was needed to explain some aspects of the Standard Model - understanding why some particles have very large masses while others are light.

Also, the find would help scientists probe mysteries of the universe like the nature of dark matter.
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While the detector and magnet technology employed to detect Higgs boson-like-new particle could find use in MRI and PET scans, it would be quite a while before the actual application of Higgs boson is understood.

The discovery is of critical importance at the fundamental level. As one expert put it: What was the value of the discovery of solar system and relative position of planets? Nothing much two hundred years back, but critical for today’s Mars probe.

Also, it took decades from the discovery of radiation to harnessing the power of the atom.

Same is the case with Higgs boson find. The opportunities are immense – sample this:

Higgs boson gives mass its attributes like inertia and gravity. So, theoretically, if we are able to control the mass, we can reduce inertia.

A 200-tonne jumbo jet can be manufactured with inertia as low as that of a 20-tonne one, leading to huge savings in fuel costs. Or even better, a light weight interstellar ship that can zip across the space to make travel to Mars as convenient as the trans-Atlantic trip of today.

Higgs boson is one more – a significant one – piece of the puzzle that our universe is, and that is what makes it important.

Who knows in a century from now, or even earlier, time warps, time travel may all become reality; such is the potential of the find.

But for now, the Higgs boson discovery is at the same level of evolution as was when Nicholaus Copernicus (1473-1543) announced that earth and other planets move around the sun in circles.

It took over 400 years for the human species to send one of their own to moon. Hope, we will be faster this time.
(The views expressed by the author are personal)
G Srinivasan - Kotagiri
its really sad how once agin the accident is stealing the vedic thunder and putting it into the new higgs wine bottle. the god particle has described in vedic science, through the bhagavadgita abd sankhya in it that more than 10000 yeas ago . it si so profound that the god particle has two states of max and min values both of which are given in sankya. the purusha is .9149 kg mass as max and the moolaprakriti as 1.3 e minus 51 kg as min mass between which all phenomena operates. how can we ever overcome the intellectual aggressiveness of the occident in mowing down ohers info to assert their own.
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Bhagabata prasad panda - subarnapur,odisha,india
god is the creaters of the universe.allways he is trying,how human being can survive in this world and can lives very smoothly,freely. so that the discovery of the god particle is also a great gressed of god like previous scientifical discoveries.
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dr. deviprasad menon - secunderabad
kudos to the physicists at cern for this outstanding achievement.the discovery of a boson that conveys to all extant particles its mass suggests the omnipresence of the higgs boson.
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balaji - nanded
higgs boson or god particle is just name given to assumed particle so it does not mean that that particle is god ( god is different thing which is out of human power or mind to understand so forget about it )
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melvin Goldstein - dallas
numbers are the supreme court of science. however godel proved that we may not prove everything using numbers. physics needs numbers. there must be physics foibles. always more to prove.
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Anthony Bejarano - USA
just so all the comments aren`t superstitious, can you say a little about why this particle is subatomic in size yet tis, if my high school chemistry serves, more massive than a tin atom?
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melvin goldstein - dallas tx
numbers are the supreme court of science. however godel proved that we may not prove everything using numbers. physics needs numbers. there must be physics foibles. always more to prove. search 40 years and find wahat you are looking for.
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Ken paulin - Canada
the significance of the higgs boson particles theoretical application is huge. if it is this particle that gives mass to all matter, it may be possible in the future to uncouple its bond, thus directly affecting gravities affect on matter. this could be the beginning of the process which will lead to anti-gravity propulsion. we may truly be on the cusp of a new understanding of the universe.
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ernie - new zealand
is the higgs important?
remember the maser....before the laser.
when it was discovered it was only an interesting piece of science.
today it is all pervasive in our lives world wide.
the world as we know it would not be the same without the laser.
is finding the higgs boson important? watch this space?????
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Arinnia - India
i really didn`t understand ``higgs boson``,, can any one explain as it is simple?since i am from biotech area
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Miguel Lozano - Spain
the best we have learned in the past few years is to expect the unexpected. scientific development is faster every day and what once would have been described as ``impossible`` ha now become a very credible possibility. roll on higgs, lets just hope we use it to create, not to destroy ourselves.
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Sameer Chettri - Pune
all i can remember is the wordings of lord buddha- ``fortune is a cause of misfortune``. our race consist of both good and evil so i just hope it won`t fall on the wrong hands. more inventions, more discoveries, more progress, more of everything have always lead to immense misery!!

regards,
sameer chettri
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sathish - manipal
i wonder why they called this as the `god particle`! some people are now coming up with some sort of metaphysical conceit (if i my say so) to argue that if there is god particle, then there should be a god!!
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Pete - USA
this is it! what all of us kids from the 80`s have been waiting for....
marty mcfly`s hoverboard is now just around the corner!
``roads? where we`re going, we don`t need roads!``
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bhargav - gujarat
physic is work on only reliable scientific evidence
(1) top quark is most massive particle 172.9±1.5 gev/c2

(2) higgs boson is bosonic particle and extremely rare to produce and it cant be use in mri and pet, as mri is magnetic resonance imaging, and pet is positron emission tomography nothing to do with higgs boson

(3)by knowing property of particle we can understand force more deeply but we can not change its property (4) there is no practical use of higgs boson as of now
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Ankit - Jaipur
do you still believe in maya calander? ha ha. as for practical use of higgs boson we have countless possibilities.
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minhaz - Mumbai
imaginative and innovative. yes who knows we will take another 1000 years, to reach at a true conclusion. that too if mayans are proved wrong.
what if god finishes us all way before that.
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sandeep - bangalore
I really agree with you. They are highlighting that they are watching porn, they are not saying that politicians are not interested in ongoing assembly session.
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HARSHISH - DAHOD
can it be of any alien?
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Farhad - Anonymous
higgs boson is an evolved particle. and i think, more particles will found in future.
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Mindorashvili Bidzina - Georgia
reflections on the greatest discovery of our time, and the mass of the elementary and vital right for all of us, of energy.
the ancient greeks knew about the weight of the material world is constructed from indivisible particles, which are called atoms.
this meant that our world had a beginning and that was the beginning of the atoms (the first building blocks of the universe), which was built by the structure of the material world of space and including man, is not attached to a particular value, how many levels (layers) seal material consisted of our world.
the ancient greeks knew the simple truth is elementary, indivisible atoms over the levels of sealing material that is from the beginning to the top of the transmitted primary indicator of its materiality, a lot of it for them was palpable, and on the elementary course.
themselves the ancient greeks and their philosophy was very concise and in a nutshell, they were able to portray a complete picture of the mental exercises of the world as a whole, for them then it was quite enough.
in contrast to the ancient greeks, we moderns luda entangled in his wordy theories and terminology, for example, with the first atom called a planetary-shaped portion of one of the levels of matter, and now the god particle the higgs boson, each time hoping that the srl has reached the beginning of the origin of our world, despite the fact that we all know perfectly well that the mass and another major indicator of the materiality of the first building blocks of our world (atoms or bosons or even ......), the energy is closely related to each other, of course, in this particular case, i mean mass and energy of the higgs boson is not ``our`` atom, which has long affirmed the true relationship between its mass and energy.
the higgs boson has several decay channels and one of the most intense channel is the decay into two photons.
i`m also pretty sure that all elementary particles their mass is taken from the higgs boson (the quantum field theory calls it), which in my opinion is a ``flap`` (``piece``) of the last level of gravity compressing ether (two-pack, quantized, three-dimensional space ) immediately prior to the formation of the body (standard) e. particles.
but not once created without modifying existing (as in quantum field theory), and is constantly d and effective, which is closely related to and completely dependent (continuous and mutual exchange of essential quanta) with ether gave birth to them.
i understand that at first glance, my fundamental theory (theory of physical space and its gravity) is more complicated than quantum field theory is the quantum-mechanical theory of local fields, but i assure you that my theory is simply a more saturated with simple, but vitally necessary parts of the elementary truths, so even though the volume more, but much simpler and clearer, and more importantly to the absolute accuracy and fully represents the true picture of the world and it is very easy to grasp and understand.
after luda, in the first split the atom and the energy received from it has been more than 70 years.
the energy of the atom itself has proved that up to this very moment we were on the correct path in fundamental physics and the theory and practice and understanding of the world as a whole.
after that, we have serious energy did not open is not in not in the fusion of different el.chastits collisions.
at heart we are all well aware that things are not as we would like, but pretend that all is well mole, and even excellent.
not to show it, but that does not get better.
we must act urgently and without delay in order to save effort, because by nature free and filled with pumped oil and gas will soon come to an end, and a more flexible source of energy we have not yet opened and it seems that in the near future is not open, if the old way to go.
i do not want to scare you, but believe me in words, as soon as the oil and gas reserves run out, and end our earthly civilization, it`s like 2 +2 = 4! we will not help not some moral sense, there will be chaos and everything will soon be over.
you probably think that i`m trying to humiliate anyone, the fact of the great discoveries in fundamental physics, the discovery of the higgs boson and also scare you to death.
but it is not.
first, because i affirm my full confidence that all of its mass el.chastitsy take on the higgs boson is located further from them (under them) of the field, that`s what i wrote.
and secondly, i am sure that it`s ``uvydet`` (if only ``see`` help us) to be in the collider is stalkivat hadrons.
but,
you just made a mistake hadron!
just forgot how to have reached that point where everything worked perfectly.
remember ladies and gentlemen, what you chose for the atom splitting to ``see`` the deeper structure of matter (and then gain energy)?
you chose the unstable atoms radium, uranium, and so forth, and began to conduct experiments on their cleavage.
and what el.chastitsu you have chosen to shatter it and ``see`` even deeper structural levels, and physical processes, ie this time, the higgs boson?
you have chosen the proton, metastable el.chastitsu our world! assembly line of a matter (so i nazivayu in his theory of the proton) to this function to make the matter (the first phase of gravity is compressed air) is directly ``by hand`` inherited from the super primary particle in our world, from protoatoma.
at the same time protoatome el.chastitsy conceived all basic and vzarvavshy protoatom they spawned, and the remaining proton (deflated outer shell protoatoma).
the real reason for the emergence and protoatomov and gravity and ether (all this happened at a time) was the collision of two three-dimensional space consisting of a variety of three-dimensional spatial mesh (in the cell nucleus have been one single triangular pyramid, and the other was a huge complex, compound shapes of the individual triangular pyramids), at this point began the formation of a mixed three-dimensional space that is ether (two-component, quantum-, three-dimensional space) and at the same time protoatomov, it creates inertia in the spaces formed by the collision at this time-space quantum ``eddies``, gravity and inertia of the ether is a universal structure that was born on collision spaces, and which continues to this day, curvature form (a form of ``whirlwind``) of different scales, ranging from the size and finishing el.chastits metagalaxy.
here it is necessary to note that in the real foundation of our world is no uncertainty at all there, just aired a two-and all the unexplained phenomena in simple language due to precisely this, and quantum field theory can not even guess the cause.
the first phase of gravitational contraction of the ether in a matter that is individual (main) el.chastitsy.
the second phase of gravity is matter itself.
the third phase is an extension of gravity, ie, the repulsion gradual ``evaporation`` of matter back into the air of large or small portions of ether separate quanta of both species individually or in blocks of these quanta again through e-mail. particles.
weight of this process with the first born is chaotic, but very gradually improved, was improved and now is a highly organized and orderly manner.
in the proton is the first and second phase of gravity (a very strong field of compression of the ether), the third phase of the gravity of the proton is expressed very weakly and mainly works on a shot from a large portion of the proton is large blocks of terrestrial rays of both species and singly and in mixed form.
in electron and positron are the first phase of gravity (weak than that of the proton, the field of compression of the ether), the second phase and third phase, which they have worked in small portions is the third phase they have quite strongly expressed, but not stronger than the first phase, for this they (spontaneously) does not fall apart.
while the first phase of the gr
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robert - michigan
could you summarize please, many thanks.
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Bobby - RSA
can`t wait to order my higgsmolbile and float down the highway. nah, who needs the highway.
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rudedad - Maine, USA
when i saw the reference to copernicus, i thought mr. kumar might be drawing the conceptual parallel between the prevailing model of celestial motion in the pre-copernican era and the current state of theory in subatomic physics. when aristotelian heliocentrism reigned, it became necessary to produce increasingly complicated physical models - the epicycles and perispheres - to explain increasingly subtle perturbations identified with each advance in observational technique. i have to wonder if the increasingly large, messy, and tentative ``particle zoo`` of modern physics isn`t simply today`s theoretical equivalent. to this poorly educated layman, the ``particle zoo`` appears on its face to significantly violate occam`s razor. i can`t help but hope that somewhere there is or will be a nicholas copernicus who will point out to us a simpler - and more valid - way to interpret the track patterns produced in particle accelerators.
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