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In 2007 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will become operational. The main function of the LHC is to find the Higgs Boson. The Higgs is nicknamed the God particle because of its importance to the Standard Model, the theory devised to explain how sub-atomic particles interact with each other. So my question is, once discovered, how will knowledge about the Higgs affect our daily lives and/or manufacture of new devices that make our lives better?

What do I look like, a particle physicist?

How the hell should any of us know?

I swear i just finished reading the last page of Angels and Demons by Dan Brown all to do with that very subject. Cue spooky music.........

it will help us understand quantum physics a bit better and other stuff.

oh.. I guess that's a bit vague.

um.. it makes really cool sqirlly lines! WOOT!

I think it would allow us to produce nano technology easier since we would know ho to manipulate sub-atomic particles.

Maybe the Higgs won't be discovered, at least not in the way, shape or form expected.

The discovery of the Higgs particle would only satisfy our scientific curiosity. Like you said, the building of the particle accelerator is almost only for confirmation or denial of the standard model. That alone makes it important enough to build it.

it's highly unlikely the LHC will find a Higgs Boson. It isn't capable of producing enough electron volts to cover the spectrum where it might appear. Although it does theoretically overlap the bottom of its range. It is possible they'll get lucky though.

Asking what application something has even before it's discovered is fairly naiive in my view.

Whoever you are, don't even bother posting one of those pictures. I'm sick of those, ruins the topics.

i have never heard of this before, but it sounds important for the furtherment of nanotechnology and quantum computing. both of which are sexy.

roid wrote:i have never heard of this before, but it sounds important for the furtherment of nanotechnology and quantum computing. both of which are sexy.

Sooooo.. you like women that can time shift and are too small too see? Dude.. thats a shopping nightmare..

woodchip wrote:how will knowledge about the Higgs affect our daily lives...

It won't.

Not today it won't maybe...


But tomorrow, when you jump in your inertialess antigravity sled to get to work, you may thank your lucky stars for the Higgs!

WarAdvocat wrote:Not today it won't maybe...


But tomorrow, when you jump in your inertialess antigravity sled to get to work, you may thank your lucky stars for the Higgs!

Probably not. With the way my career is going I won't be able to afford an antigravity sled.

WarAdvocat wrote:Not today it won't maybe...


But tomorrow, when you jump in your inertialess antigravity sled to get to work, you may thank your lucky stars for the Higgs!

Yup, and we all know that the year 2000 brought great innovations in the nuclear-powered flying car department.

I blame the clueless Luddite Green masses.

Dedman wrote:With the way my career is going I won't be able to afford an antigravity sled.

but when you hit rockbottom you figure you can just STEAL one.

think positive

if the multiverse is indeed infintely large, then why should it not also be infinitely small?

we may very well find that things keep on getting smaller and smaller, and there is no final indivisbile state.