[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.

[Fredd]

so how do they line up the protons lol?

btw why can't they just use photons instead or is that too light for them?

[allenwr]

Using neutrons actually, and with super magnets they are able to precisely predict and control the path of the neutron(s) so they collide.

The photons, it's not that they are too light, it's just that they have zero mass to begin with.

[Fredd]

well they do have some type of momentum -> http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/960731.html and in theory photons have a mass because how else could you explain how they are affected by gravity?

[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.

[allenwr]

Originally Posted by Fredd well they do have some type of momentum -> http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/960731.html and in theory photons have a mass because how else could you explain how they are affected by gravity?

That does not have to be true. Because we do not understand gravity yet, we know it is there, we know it pulls on everything, but that is as far as we know.

Now, quick question, do radio waves have a mass?

[fxfighter]

is it just me or did our hero start working on the next big project?

[allenwr]

good job on copying the picture i posted last night....

[fxfighter]

where?
didnt know gonna start reading some more post at this forum.
but its still awesome that whatever that shows up will change our vision on what we knowed about fysics