Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
tech

Physicists abuzz about possible new particle as CERN revs up

2 Comments
By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK JORDANS

The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.

© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.

2 Comments
Login to comment

It would be nice if they named th new particle after that weasel. New particles don't seem to last. Be good to know why. Always wondered if dark matter was spent radiation. There's enough of that going around. Since radiation like light and heat bounce off surfaces, you ever wonder why you can't see in a room that has a light turned off? Isn't the radiation still in the room bouncing around? Ever wonder how radiation can maintain a wave shape in what we call a vacuum? Why would it keep turning back toward the X axis of direction, then turn around and go back to it over and over while moving forward? What could cause it to keep making these steering moves? Ever think the average person doesn't really understand a wave in a vacuum at all? Or what a photon really is? Do electrons really travel down a wire or are their charges being exchanged atom by atom? Wonder what is the similarity between the processes of thought and the behavior found in the universe? Ever wonder if there was more than one big bang going off in different areas instead of just one? Can we plot expansion well enough to be able to look in the correct direction of our own big bang? If so, can we plot our relative speed from it, and if it's at least half the speed of light, then matter expanding in the opposite directions would appear to be traveling faster than the speed of... No, wait, would we ever even see them then?

0 ( +1 / -1 )

A graviton would be very interesting because as of now, we humans do not measure gravity, merely its perceived effects relative to us. If we could actually work with a graviton, then we would be manipulating and measuring actual gravity, opening the door to who knows what, artificial gravity or artificial anti gravity, perhaps.

I just hope this time, these scientists actually prove something exists and they find it. The Higgs stuff years ago was not evidence of anything, they merely showed statistically it is most likely a higgs, the problem is they found more than one possible energy for Higgs and in real experimentation, the Higgs should have been mathematically predicted not guessed. Much like Einstein precisely predicted light bending around a star for the experiment done to prove relativity. The light bent exactly as Einstein predicted and his experiment was exact, meaning if it didnt work as predicted, the theory would have been flawed.

For CERN and Higgs, they did not prove anything but at least they saw evidence of something, enough to consider looking for what that something is and maybe it will be a graviton. Just prove it this time, not six sigma nonsense used to make the politicians granting money feel as if they got something out of it.

0 ( +1 / -1 )

Login to leave a comment

Facebook users

Use your Facebook account to login or register with JapanToday. By doing so, you will also receive an email inviting you to receive our news alerts.

Facebook Connect

Login with your JapanToday account

User registration

Articles, Offers & Useful Resources

A mix of what's trending on our other sites