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Scientists have converted the theoretical energy signature that the Higgs boson will produce if it's created in the LHC into a set of sounds, which will allow scientists to listen to the data and pick out the Higgs boson by sound instead of having to search through the energry readings.
Even just listening to it, reproduced on the computer, is a little staggering - thinking about those bell-like noises integrated into every part of the material world. It's like we've taken the medieval idea of the "music of the spheres" and turned it on its head. Only it's real. (Maybe.)
Of course, in a shocking twist, scientists will then actually run the Atlas experiment and find that the Higgs boson sounds exactly like a vuvuzela.
Speaking of vuvuzelas, apparently an American Army employee in Germany grew so annoyed with his neighbors' vuvuzela-blowing that he threatened them with an axe. Who ever said soccer wasn't interesting?
Even just listening to it, reproduced on the computer, is a little staggering - thinking about those bell-like noises integrated into every part of the material world. It's like we've taken the medieval idea of the "music of the spheres" and turned it on its head. Only it's real. (Maybe.)
Of course, in a shocking twist, scientists will then actually run the Atlas experiment and find that the Higgs boson sounds exactly like a vuvuzela.
Speaking of vuvuzelas, apparently an American Army employee in Germany grew so annoyed with his neighbors' vuvuzela-blowing that he threatened them with an axe. Who ever said soccer wasn't interesting?
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There's still a lot to discover. Higg's particle is actually critical - if it doesn't exist, we basically got it wrong for fifty years in advanced physics. Meaning everything is to be started over.
And then, there are those who corrupt science's beauty (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1202). :D
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It's awfully tempting to do that myself, I've got to admit. :)
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Its existence was postulated at some point in the 20th century (don't remember when) and most of our recent theories require it in order to be true.
But then again, the main problem with Higg's particle is that it's hard to detect by nature (its characteristics make it excessively hard to detect - if I remember correctly it doesn't have a charge and its mass is really small (or is it null?)).
We're pretty sure there *is* something though. When disintegrating stuff, the two "matter parts" we're able to monitor/detect/whatever go two separate ways which are roughly in a 120° angle configuration.
If you think about it a little, you find out that 120x2 only makes 240° - there's an huge hole in this repartition (if we could detect every part of the disintegration it would either spread in a plane (total angle 360°) or in three dimensions (for more than four "matter parts")). This hole must be filled with something else we can't detect as of now (Higg's particle), by the current theory. Because there simply isn't any other reason for this 120° gap from our current theory viewpoint.
... Sorry, too much science (and probably a few errors in it, I'm not a specialist at all).