Indeed it does, d a!  Very interesting stuff and all for the writer's imaginative taking!

Now that they've found the most fundamental particle, it's time to move onto the most elusive of all: Dark Matter.

Ah, but what is this Higgs Boson composed of?

If I shoot a steely marble through a measurable magnetic field, the thing that is the magnetic field is both a field and a particle effecting iron (protons + or electrons-)... and that is how I picture the Higgs Field/particle when elementary particles zip into it, only instead of effecting direction, it effects weight/mass.  Talk about a complex measurement! An electron, when measured for Higgs boson effects on it can then be manipulated down to the quark levels... changing spin rates and directions? ... making it into a positron or their anti particles? This boson boggles the mind... yes.

To me, Dark Matter is the eleven dimensions (minus the four we know and love).

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maxkeanu wrote:

Ah, but what is this Higgs Boson composed of?

If I shoot a steely marble through a measurable magnetic field, the thing that is the magnetic field is both a field and a particle effecting iron (protons + or electrons-)... and that is how I picture the Higgs Field/particle when elementary particles zip into it, only instead of effecting direction, it effects weight/mass.  Talk about a complex measurement! An electron, when measured for Higgs boson effects on it can then be manipulated down to the quark levels... changing spin rates and directions? ... making it into a positron or their anti particles? This boson boggles the mind... yes.

To me, Dark Matter is the weight of the seven other dimension (minus the four we know and love).

Or, a proton is nothing more than a gumball machine full of bosons.

Did you ever see a long fishing lure drawn through the water? It danced, oscillated and rippled through the water. That's what ALL particles do when travelling through The Ether, giving rise to wave lengths and the variable speeds. We now know for sure, as many physicists have always suspected,  its the individual particles mass thats being, grabbed if you like, interacting with the Higgs Boson field.  And yes Max, as with Neutrinos, they can some how release or gain/change mass which is kinda like changing train tracks at the speed of light. I'm no mathematician, although I enjoyed mathematical linear programming at Uni, but you don't have to be to know that something so awsome is upon us.
Dark Matter Uurgh! They might as well have said, "Lepricon's juggling hand grenades." The truth is they don't know why the universe exists, given the imbalance of energy. So some numpty calls it Dark Matter, which is quite misleading. The explanation to the imbalance will be figured out eventually. I like to think of it being like ants sat upon an elephant. We've had a meeting and decided our universe moves because were riding on a great god called Ellie, now we just got work out what holds Ellie up. (And no it’s not Turtle’s.)


So now were asking ourselves what’s the great god Ellie stood on? Yes, Hawking did lose the bet, but I think it’s the best $100 bucks ever lost.

All hail Peter Higgs and his $100 dollar bet.
This is way beyond moon landings and space stations.


D A Reynolds

All hail Ellie!  So an astrogeophysicist becomes a dermatologist of the cosmic Ellie.  I rather like it.

Kydd your so right, Star Trek will always be with me, and as much as I loved the old, the new is brilliant. Loved the last film. Max you make me laugh, thanks.

To boldly go, or baldly in my case.

Cheers

D A Reynolds

Bonnie Milani wrote:

Hi, All!

Uh, while y'all are moving, could you stop by the last couple of chapter postings of my Home World novel & drop me some feedback?   I really do recip - takes a while, around quarter close & such times, but I do. 

Hugs & Hope
Bonnie Milani

Hey Bonnie, I saw your name pop up on another fantasy forum and I've started working my way through your chapters. I'm  not going to review the first few as you've got plenty on those (and I'm not fishing for credits!). I'm going to read all of them before I review the last few so that I know what I'm talking about!

I'll be in touch soon. :-)

Sam

Memphis Trace wrote:

Or to put it bluntly: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/god … story.html

Memphis Trace

Wonderful discovery? Or the end of the world?

But I'm also thinking—ultimate death ray. That that gives mass to everything, can also take away mass from things like humans and encryption and barking doberman pinchers and my neural networks. Just a minute mass, of mass, removed from electrons and all brains turn to grape jelly. You can bet your bottom dollar DARPA already has this death ray on the drawing broads, and will deny this until its shipped to Area 52 to test on sheep and prairie dogs.

Oh Flash Gordon Jr.... will you be battling the evil Ming Bling in future decades? Have we opened Pandora's box another inch? Will hadrons... the evil mass-less monster, Hadron the Great, soon invade worlds at speeds faster than light?

With every new and great  invention (except the PEZ dispenser) man finds a way to bugger his fellow man, steal his plump women and increase banking interest rates.

The major practical uses for quantum discoveries, so far, can be counted on your fingers.

Paranoid, me? I'm buying my sheep, a crook and retreating to the hills very soon.

- mÅx -baah-baah-baah

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Geez, your right quantum tunneling...ooops. Forgot about diodes. I have a silly electronics degree I never use any more. And most of my cats have chips, too. I may need one... for memory.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EffetTunnel.gif

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"The major practical uses for quantum discoveries, so far, can be counted on your fingers."

Now, if you turn those "digits" into "qubits" those fingers could do a lot more counting than first meets the eye... or fingers as the case may be. What are the limits for "superimposing" those mundane digits into a quantum configuration of dexterous proportions?

Of course once you count that quantum finger, it might not be there anymore which would be a bummer until it shows up somewhere else, but then you get to count it again and that's pretty cool don't you think. Imagine the confusion it might cause to road rage warriors who only use one finger. Suddenly there are fingers where they ain't supposed to be and who knows what that could mean. Aww geez, all this is getting to be a bit uncertain. I need to talk to Shroedinger or somebody to make sense of it all. Take care. Vern