Out of Pod Experience

ITT: theists butthurt about science brandishing agitated nonsense. News at 11.

Start by learning about the real reason why the Higgs Boson was dubbed "the god particle", no need to have a degree on particle physics to understand that particular issue.

The hubris of ignorance...

My most important qualification comes from elementary school where they told me the basics of the scientific method. Since then I have seen doctors of every field take a gigantic steaming crap on it in order to entice grants, enhance their own personal fame and/or agendas and propagate social stereotypes.


The most important paper that I have written was in bad cursive, in about the fourth grade. Where I clearly outlined that 1. you must first observe a phenomena and then 2. use the scientific method (and mathematics) to interpret that phenomena and 3. predict further dynamic processes as a last and final step.


As oppose to... you know... standing in front of a marker board and imagining "string theory" (a thing that you can never possibly observe in real life) and then inventing math that requires so many imaginary dimensions just to get my numbers to work (because they do not actually work) just so I can play some violins on the discovery channel and call myself a genius. Similarly, you should not smash a seemingly infinite amount of protons together in order to observe random particle decay at the speed of light, see a random event every 1 trillion (10^12) times that does not quite look like what you were expecting and tell the world that you have found a predicted god particle that fixes all of the holes in your "theory of everything".




So as you can see... I, as well as many elementary school graduates around the world are in fact extremely well vised and educated on the subject at hand. I presume you made it to the fourth grade and learned the scientific method? Did you not? If you didn't that's ok, I understand. Not everyone can excel in elementary school.

I can give you the name of the elementary school where I wrote my first papers on proper scientific practices if you like? Everything else after that is just bells and whistles.

This god particle thing has been on my mind for a while, I just have not been bothering to post on my favorite Internet spaceships forum lately. Yesterday I just figured... why the hell not!




Also... Triumvirate (dot). What happened to Triumvirate 1.0? Oh... right...

Please do. I could do with some more laughs with my popcorn.

I think you'd have a higher chance of success if you went back to the WoW forums, you might actually get a few internet points. Here, not so much.

Went into hibernation. But we came back, much unlike your argumentative skills and scientific career.

And now I am sure that Tri 3.0 will some how become relevant again... Next... Hydra!! 4.0!

It wasn't until three years ago that we've actually been able to "see" an electron, yet there was absolutely no contest over whether electrons do exist or not for a whole lot longer than that.
Also, it's still not clear whether this is "the" Higgs Boson or the lightest of several Higgs Bosons, and further testing could take quite a few extra years.


I wouldn't exactly pride myself with that thread if I was in your position, but to each its own, I guess.
Side-note, this case we have here is more or less the reverse of that - in that truly massive amounts of data were scoured and certain events were repeatedly recorded, with inconclusive data repeatedly chopped off, leaving an ever-mounting mountain of, yes, circumstantial, yet fairly solid evidence to support the claims, whereas no clearly conflicting evidence could be found.

This Anti-Science Movement is just plain-ol' Scary, tbh.

Given that they have run hundreds if not thousands of runs to compile the data using two teams on multiple detectors and one of the teams was hoping they would not detect the god partical I would say their methods are good.

Most people were hoping there would be no partical as it would mean our best theories were wrong.

What they found was not a "everything" particle at all. There is nothing about it to even suggest so.

And your reply makes me doubt that you read my post all the way through.




Many new particles have been found in that particle masher. This particular one does not stand out in anyway shape or form. It does not exist at energy levels in which Higgs particles are reputed to reside. It has no strange or peculiar properties. It is a particle with a positive charge that may or may not have a spin, and is only observable one out of every billion billion tries.


Now imagine taking this discovery and calling it god. Saying that everything in the universe now makes sense, that this particle is the glue that holds it all together and then awarding someone the Noble Prize for the discovery.



This is not the scientific method...this is scientific politics.