Has anyone seen Higgs' Boson recently

[epenguin]

by any chance?

 

[e.bar.goum]

Damn, you lost it again?!

Checked behind the couch?

 

[Pengwuino]

CERN announced they saw hints of one. They need to open up the detector and find where it went though. Hopefully it doesn't jump out and try to escape to Italy like those neutrinos did.

 

[turbo]

Damn, you lost it again?!

Checked behind the couch?

It might be under the dresser. Those rascals are quite easy to lose track of.

 

[Drakkith]

I MIGHT have swept it up and thrown it into the trash. My bad.

 

[PAllen]

Eighteen months ago I made a custom bumper sticker I have on my car (dreading the likely way upcoming political campaigns would play out):


Higgs 2012
Susy Too

At least half of it is somewhat promising.

 

[Bill_K]

My bumper sticker

 

[jtbell]

Maybe it's that fuzzy blob under my bed. You know, Heisenberg uncertainty principle and all that. No, wait, it's just a dust bunny.

 

[Borek]

If not Higgs' Boson, then perhaps Hugged Bison will do?

 

[Andy Resnick]

This time of year, I'm trying to *lose* weight, not find it.

 

[Astronuc]

Perhaps they will be more successful at measuring it's elusivity.

Anyway - just in case - what colour is it? If I see one, I'll let folks know.

 

[epenguin]

If not Higgs' Boson, then perhaps Hugged Bison will do?

It looks massive.

That's all down to the Higgs boson dontcherknow - it creates mass.

Hey - including its own!?

All very confusing really, well I expect these physicists know what they're doing.

 

[PAllen]

Perhaps they will be more successful at measuring it's elusivity.

Anyway - just in case - what colour is it? If I see one, I'll let folks know.

Hey, I always thought the Higgs was colorless if SM is correct ...

 

[rhody]

I was worried the BSM Forum was going to be flooded with crackpots drawn to PF like honey. I guess I shouldn't have. I think the melodramatic way that most of the media handled it was partly the reason. The news mentioned it as a thirty second aside at the end of the nightly news. Whew, that was close... Imagine what would have happened if they did a five minute piece with background.

Rhody...

 

[lisab]

Damn, you lost it again?!

Checked behind the couch?

There would be no couch without it - it *must* be under there.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I hope they never find it. I'm heavy enough as it is.

 

[Dembadon]

I don't lose things because I put them in a specific place. I put my Higgs Boson next to my keys so I don't forget it in the morning when I leave for school.

 

[KingNothing]

I actually equipped mine with one of those pet-tracking devices, just in case I lose it.

 

[Dembadon]

Slightly off-topic: What is the reason for the apostrophe in "Higgs' Boson" in the title of the thread? I guess I misunderstood the question.

I have no idea where Peter's boson is; he can keep track of his own particles.

 

[Borg]

by any chance?

Several women have. That's why he's no longer running for president.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hey, I always thought the Higgs was colorless if SM is correct ...

While colorless and odorless, most people think they taste like chicken.

 

[Dembadon]

While colorless and odorless, most people think they taste like chicken.

Chicken tastes like ranch dressing to me. I think it's because I put a lot of ranch dressing on it.

 

[micromass]

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/07/29/139570.jpg

 

[turbo]

Chuck is the Higgs? Now I'm scared.

 

[Drakkith]

I say we put it on a milk carton with "Have you seen this boson?"

 

[wuliheron]

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a Higgs that wasn’t there
It wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish it would go away...

When I came home last night at three
The Higgs was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see it there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little Higgs who wasn’t there
It wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish it would go away

 

[jobyts]

While colorless and odorless, most people think they taste like chicken.

Ivan, it is Higgs Boson, not Higg's bosom.

 

[turbo]

Peter Higgs theorized about the existence of a mass-granting boson quite a while back. Many millions of dollars have been spent trying to find this wonderful particle. While current experiments have managed to rule out larger and larger spreads of energies where the Higgs can't be, there is a curious lack of professional curiosity IMO.

What if Higgs was off base, and the Standard Model of particle physics needs to be modified so that particles can be shown to have mass without the mediation of intermediate particles?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I think we're all bosons this bus.

 

[turbo]

I think we're all bosons this bus.