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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 2, 2015 at 10:25 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 10:35 pm by Alex K.)
(June 2, 2015 at 10:18 pm)ignoramus Wrote: So basically, everything at it's lowest common denominator, is just a variation of energy of varying frequencies which manifests itself sometimes as "matter".
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Yes. Frequency and Energy are almost synonymous (you go from one to the other by multiplying plancks constant by it)
Quote:So the whole universe has zero mass since the building blocks have no mass.
How does the higgs give other elementals mass if they do not occupy space?
The contents of the universe obviously don't have zero mass, not sure what you mean.
The Higgs field which gives the other elementary ptcls mass, has a uniformly distributed nonzero value throughout space. That does the trick.
Quote:I know I'm stupid
Aren't we all
(June 2, 2015 at 10:24 pm)Aroura Wrote: This thread is
a) Fascinating
and
b) Making me feel like ugh ugh cave woman.
I'm trying hard to follow along, though.
This thread is just a testing ground for my science writer alter ego to try out explanations, so ask away (or to stroke my ego? Or both?). Anything you don't understand is either because i myself don't understand it, or only understand it in terms of maths and/or haven't explained it properly. All reasons to try harder.
p.s. you crush rock with club?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 2, 2015 at 11:12 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 11:20 pm by Alex K.)
(June 2, 2015 at 11:06 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Alex, you make it sound like higgs and dark energy/matter are possibly related?
Caveat - Personal gut feelings:
Higgs and dark matter: maybe, maybe not. Dark matter particles need not necessarily get their mass from the higgs e.g.,
Yet, it is plausible that it does get some of it from there and interacts with the Higgs particle. In some models it is directly tied to the higgs, where there are additional stable higgs bosons which form the dark matter.
Higgs and dark energy: probably. Theory suggests that among many other things, the higgs field contributes to dark energy. The real question is why there isn't much *more* dark energy. Naive calculations give 40-120 orders of magnitude too much dark energy.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle satanist)
June 2, 2015 at 11:31 pm
(June 2, 2015 at 10:24 pm)Aroura Wrote: This thread is... Making me feel like ugh ugh cave woman.
...
You should not feel bad. The truth was given earlier:
(June 1, 2015 at 5:57 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Nobody listen to this man! These are the words of the devil!
I say, burn him, he is a witch!
I am pretty sure that in this case, people will understand that I am joking, but people have made mistakes about this in the past. I suppose I am to blame for this, as I glide between seriousness and jest, sometimes not only within the same post, but within the same sentence. And, of course, I usually eschew emoticons, as they give away that one is joking, before one even reads anything at all, which makes them quite different from starting a story sounding serious, and ending it with what is obviously a joke. Anyway, it is obvious that anyone who has anything to do with the LHC is in league with the devil, and so we should burn the entire project, for the glory of God, and for the preservation of our immortal souls.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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