[Zenith77]

Originally Posted by Lee I'm no scientist, but I predict they won't find the Higgs boson. Come back in a few months to see if my mind is worth that of eight thousand physicists and billions of euros or maybe I'm just an idiot. In before quoting "I'm just an idiot".

There is a reasonable chance they won't find it, but current trends (i.e. how everything else in the Standard Model has been found) say other wise.

[allenwr]

Originally Posted by Zenith77 There is a reasonable chance they won't find it, but current trends (i.e. how everything else in the Standard Model has been found) say other wise.

Even if they don't find what they are looking for, they are going to find something as they start smashing subatomic particles.

Wow, can you believe how fast we have come in science? 100 years* ago they were just starting to actually identify the atom, 50 years* ago they learned to split the atom and now in this century we have started to split the subatomic particles. Where do we go next?

* actual time is poorly rounded off.

[Exolent[jNr]]

Splitting sub-sub-atomic particles?

[grimvh2]

What does it matter if humand kind dies in a few days ore in the next 1000 (I dont guess more)

[allenwr]

Originally Posted by grimvh2 What does it matter if humand kind dies in a few days ore in the next 1000 (I dont guess more)

I'm sorry, but did you just type what ever came to your mind? Can you think before you type? We were not discussing the end of humanity, but the progress of our science in understanding our universe.

[Zenith77]

Originally Posted by allenwr Even if they don't find what they are looking for, they are going to find something as they start smashing subatomic particles. Wow, can you believe how fast we have come in science? 100 years* ago they were just starting to actually identify the atom, 50 years* ago they learned to split the atom and now in this century we have started to split the subatomic particles. Where do we go next? * actual time is poorly rounded off.

Responding to your first statement, yea just to summarize my thoughts on this one of the scientists working on the LHC stated that, "the most disappointing outcome would be to find the higgs boson and only the higgs boson." So they're definitely going after other things.

I do admit that in the last 100 years we have an unprecedented pace of progress in human understanding. However, I cannot say that it will continue to accelerate at this pace, but I do hope that it does. In fact, this amazes me more than anything. It is not the discoveries themselves, it is the pace at which we are finding them.

[v3x]

Originally Posted by allenwr Wow, can you believe how fast we have come in science? 100 years* ago they were just starting to actually identify the atom, 50 years* ago they learned to split the atom and now in this century we have started to split the subatomic particles. Where do we go next?

I believe that aliens have played a significant role in this somehow

[Exolent[jNr]]

You know, scientists have recently discovered a new sub-atomic particle: the crouton.