Scientists Make Progress On Higgs Boson

6 Responses to “Scientists Make Progress On Higgs Boson”

1. slamfu says:

   December 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm

   I wish they wouldn’t call it the “God particle”. They are just begging a bunch of christian looney’s to go on another ignorant tirade about science somehow peeing in their sandbox.
2. PATRICK EDABURN, Assistant Editor says:

   December 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm

   Perhaps so, though as a devout Christian I have no problem with science, though I presume you were refering to a small minority of the faith.
3. slamfu says:

   December 13, 2011 at 3:32 pm

   Yes I was, although while I’ll grant its a minority it is not a small one. Hell I can go on FOX news any night of the week and find evidence of what I can only call anti-science viewpoints from major media figures. And since they are major media figures it means they have a lot of people that listen in and like their views.
4. roro80 says:

   December 13, 2011 at 4:44 pm

   It’s interesting that the article says Lederman didn’t want the book to be called “The God Particle”. He makes it pretty clear in the book that yes, that’s what he meant.
5. rudi says:

   December 13, 2011 at 7:17 pm

   Here’s more on the geek front. Cameras speed capturing actual light waves.
   http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/12/13/somewhere-doc-is-smiling/
   From MIT your tax dollars down the drain:

   The system relies on a recent technology called a streak camera, deployed in a totally unexpected way. The aperture of the streak camera is a narrow slit. Particles of light — photons — enter the camera through the slit and pass through an electric field that deflects them in a direction perpendicular to the slit. Because the electric field is changing very rapidly, it deflects late-arriving photons more than it does early-arriving ones.

   The image produced by the camera is thus two-dimensional, but only one of the dimensions — the one corresponding to the direction of the slit — is spatial. The other dimension, corresponding to the degree of deflection, is time. The image thus represents the time of arrival of photons passing through a one-dimensional slice of space…

   …But it’s a serious drawback in a video camera. To produce their super-slow-mo videos, Velten, Media Lab Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar and Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry, must perform the same experiment — such as passing a light pulse through a bottle — over and over, continually repositioning the streak camera to gradually build up a two-dimensional image. Synchronizing the camera and the laser that generates the pulse, so that the timing of every exposure is the same, requires a battery of sophisticated optical equipment and exquisite mechanical control. It takes only a nanosecond — a billionth of a second — for light to scatter through a bottle, but it takes about an hour to collect all the data necessary for the final video. For that reason, Raskar calls the new system “the world’s slowest fastest camera.”,/blockquote>
6. Allen says:

   December 13, 2011 at 7:39 pm

   Yes Patrick, all Christians are not the same, but all Christians are saved. God Bless you….and I have no problem with science either.