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Me Attempting to Educate Myself on the Higgs Boson Discovery (imgur.com)

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[–]And_go 14 points15 points ago

This should help! It really made everything come together for me. Explained very simply, with a visual aid to help!

[–]Pancake11 1 point2 points ago

That actually made me understand what the scientists at CERN are trying to achieve, and why the Higgs bozon discovery is of such great value. Thanks!

[–]Rakutei -1 points0 points ago

Unless we can use it to do cool stuff as opposed to just explaining stuff, I won't care.

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[–]Rakutei 0 points1 point ago

Yes, but the "cool stuff" is still years/decades away.

[–]roontish12 12 points13 points ago

The Higgs Boson is something that scientists predicted in the 60's. Based on mathematical calculations and observations they theorized that this type of particle would exists at a very small scale, but nobody had ever seen one, or been able to find one in nature. Today we have very good evidence that it actually exists. When we first figured out what atoms were, it was predicted they were made up of smaller things. Eventually we found those, protons, neutrons and electrons. Then it was theorized that we would find something even smaller that those things were made of. This is basically something we figured should exist, but was very very hard to actually find in nature.

[–]GrammerNasi 3 points4 points ago

But why did they need that giant collider?

[–]ValiantAbyss 2 points3 points ago

From what I understand they need the collider to smash particles together to create energy. From this energy you can create particles, but only if you have enough energy to create a particle.

So think of energy like money. The more energy, the more particles you can create(or discover?) and the LHC is the only thing big enough to create this much energy at the current time.

Edit: This video does a much better job. link You can skip to 2:50 and they do a fantastic job on explaining what I was trying to explain.

Edit 2: Another redditor posted this video. link and once again you can skip to 3:00 and it does an awesome job at explaining why they need the LHC for.

[–]pearson530 18 points19 points ago

mfw i'm reading these articles

[–]Siethron 3 points4 points ago

No I don't

[–]thanks4beingyou 2 points3 points ago

It's a particle that gives molecules their mass, scientists knew it must exist but now they finally found it.

[–]goerila 1 point2 points ago

atoms/matter not just molecules(just being exact).

[–]thanks4beingyou 1 point2 points ago

oopsie :3 this was just what I picked up from my over exited physics teacher :p

[–]blargg8 1 point2 points ago

I remember laughing at that picture the first three times I saw it on reddit.

[–]Atmosck 2 points3 points ago

I'm an undergraduate Mathematics major and took a course on Soliton theory (waves that keep their shape, it was a lot of differential equations), and the professor handed out a paper towards the beginning of a class that was a survey of the topic and said, "You can skip the first section on classical physics, you won't understand that. Start with the second where you may understand some of the words, and for some of you, maybe even some of the sentences."

Edit: free pronouns

[–]MidKnight007 0 points1 point ago

Can someone tell me from where is this scene?

[–]vexxes[S] 1 point2 points ago

Good burger!

[–]MidKnight007 0 points1 point ago

Thank you!

[–]Kaizen321 0 points1 point ago

Word.

[–]arielhatesyoutoo 0 points1 point ago

You know you're all reading this in his voice.

[–]mcskeezy 0 points1 point ago

This same picture (with a different title) was on the front page yesterday.

[–]adaniel28 0 points1 point ago

I once made the mistake of posting this picture in /r/science and I was promptly stoned, then set on fire.

[–]Mapekus 0 points1 point ago

...Wasn't this posted like 5 days ago?

EDIT: No, really. It was titled "Me on all of this Higgs-Boson stuff". I could have sworn this was already posted with in the past few days.

[–]helllomoto -4 points-3 points ago

Jesus fucking christ I'm so sick of that fucking image. It's so fucking overused. It's not original at all. It's fucking idiotic. I'm understanding more and more why this shit is called cancer. You are literally advertising your stupidity. And you're all reveling in your mutual ignorance with upvotes.

My jimmies have never been this rustled.

[–]MrSnare 0 points1 point ago

Your vent is justified(IMO). This image was a highly rated link yesterday on /r/funny on a completely different subject

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

i was wondering when i would see this. my exact thought when i tried to go beyond the basics.

[–]munnyfish -1 points0 points ago

Glad I'm not the only one.

/r/explainlikeimfive so helpful

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