The Higgs Boson walks into a Church . . .

[Love's JAA 100]

At first I thought it was Higgs Bosom. I imagined the particle or the path it followed must resmble a woman's' breasts in some way.

[Captain Oates 911]

But does anyone know the real reason it was called the God particle?

It was discovered in South Carolina ?

[X Factor 1,112]

At first I thought it was Higgs Bosom. I imagined the particle or the path it followed must resmble a woman's' breasts in some way.

You have quite an imagination

[Captain Oates 911]

At first I thought it was Higgs Bosom. I imagined the particle or the path it followed must resmble a woman's' breasts in some way.

Before or after the age of 50 ?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It was discovered in South Carolina ?

[Stuart and Thea 95]

Breaking News: Scientists find the "God" particle, and it seems not to have any opinion at all about gay marriage.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Breaking News: Scientists find the "God" particle, and it seems not to have any opinion at all about gay marriage.

oy

[Captain Oates 911]

Breaking News: Scientists find the "God" particle, and it seems not to have any opinion at all about gay marriage.

I think you are in fact referring to the "Golden Rivett" which is highly relevant to that

[Captain Oates 911]

Scientology believes that foreign beings known as Body Thetans have clustered themselves around a person and cause them confusion. It is the goal of Scientology to remove these beings from a person.

Q is one Body Thetan bigger than a million Higgs Bosons and how many will fit inside an adult female nostril ?

This question has been prompted by a 102 degree all time heat record in Madison Wisconsin.. the a/c cannot cope

[웃 910]

But does anyone know the real reason it was called the God particle?

"The Higgs boson is the particle that is thought to give everything else in the universe mass, but that bit of theoretical physics is unlikely to be the reason most people have heard of it. Its theistic nickname was coined by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself is no fan of the label. "I find it embarrassing because, though I'm not a believer myself, I think it is the kind of misuse of terminology which I think might offend some people."It wasn't even Lederman's choice. "He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.cern

[Captain Oates 911]

"The Higgs boson is the particle that is thought to give everything else in the universe mass, but that bit of theoretical physics is unlikely to be the reason most people have heard of it. Its theistic nickname was coined by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself is no fan of the label. "I find it embarrassing because, though I'm not a believer myself, I think it is the kind of misuse of terminology which I think might offend some people."It wasn't even Lederman's choice. "He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.cern

But what gives mass to a Higgs-Bosun ? Does a body thetan have mass and if I had one in my hand luggage, could the TSA detect it ?

[HeatDeath 430]

But what gives mass to a Higgs-Bosun ? Does a body thetan have mass and if I had one in my hand luggage, could the TSA detect it ?

I realize this is probably a joke, but I'm gonna try to respond to it seriously anyways:

In quantum mechanics, as you may know, things are a lot weirder than our intuitions about reality would tell us. Particles are not tiny little billiard balls. They're more accurately visualized as weird little spread out force-field thingies that sometimes act and interact with each other like little billiard balls.

In quantum mechanics a lot of the basic things about the universe, like gravity and electromagnetism, are modeled as coming from fields - big amorphous intangible things that permeate the universe, kind of like the Force from Star Wars.

The Standard Model, our most accurate, best tested description about what the universe is made of and how it works, predicts that particles that have mass have it for two reasons: the first is how much energy they have. The second, and more fundamental reason, is their interaction with a certain field, called the Higgs field, after the guy who first described it.

In quantum mechanics, every field has a kind of particle associated with it, that causes it to exist. Fields, in a sense, are made of particles. Another way of looking at it is that fields cause particles to exist. Particles and fields are two different ways of describing and modeling the same thing. Either way, the particle associated with the Higgs field is the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson gets its mass the same way all of the other massive particles do, by a combination of its own energy and by its own interaction with the Higgs field (which is to say, other Higgs bosons).

I have no idea what a body thetan is, but if it carries information (memories, consciousness, etc) it must have energy, and energy is equivalent to mass. They may not have enough mass/energy to be detected by the TSA - the minimum energy required to encode meaningful amounts of information is thousands of thousands of of times less than the resting mass-energy of the bottled water and other terrorist devices the TSA usually scan for.

Assuming you were implying that a body thetan is made of Higgs bosons, then at any given instant you probably have thousands of trillions of them in your luggage, whether you are actually using the luggage or not. But the TSA has proven singularly unhelpful in the search for the Higgs boson, so I think we can take it as read that they cannot detect them with their current scanners.

Edited July 7, 2012 by HeatDeath

[Captain Oates 911]

I realize this is probably a joke, but I'm gonna try to respond to it seriously anyways:

In quantum mechanics, as you may know, things are a lot weirder than our intuitions about reality would tell us. Particles are not tiny little billiard balls. They're more accurately visualized as weird little spread out force-field thingies that sometimes act and interact with each other like little billiard balls.

In quantum mechanics a lot of the basic things about the universe, like gravity and electromagnetism, are modeled as coming from fields - big amorphous intangible things that permeate the universe, kind of like the Force from Star Wars.

The Standard Model, our most accurate, best tested description about what the universe is made of and how it works, predicts that particles that have mass have it for two reasons: the first is how much energy they have. The second, and more fundamental reason, is their interaction with a certain field, called the Higgs field, after the guy who first described it.

In quantum mechanics, every field has a kind of particle associated with it, that causes it to exist. Fields, in a sense, are made of particles. Another way of looking at it is that fields cause particles to exist. Particles and fields are two different ways of describing and modeling the same thing. Either way, the particle associated with the Higgs field is the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson gets its mass the same way all of the other massive particles do, by a combination of its own energy and by its own interaction with the Higgs field (which is to say, other Higgs bosons).

I have no idea what a body thetan is, but if it carries information (memories, consciousness, etc) it must have energy, and energy is equivalent to mass. They may not have enough mass/energy to be detected by the TSA - the minimum energy required to encode meaningful amounts of information is thousands of thousands of of times less than the resting mass-energy of the bottled water and other terrorist devices the TSA usually scan for.

Assuming you were implying that a body thetan is made of Higgs bosons, then at any given instant you probably have thousands of trillions of them in your luggage, whether you are actually using the luggage or not. But the TSA has proven singularly unhelpful in the search for the Higgs boson, so I think we can take it as read that they cannot detect them with their current scanners.

Excellent post but I suppose we can't go further until we have a definitive descrition of the adult BODY THETAN

We know they are alive

We know they come from another planet

We know that Tom Cruise's eyebrows are devoid of them

What we don't know is their atomic configuration or mass or whether any of them are obese or have two heads

As you say, the TSA have no chance unless they have bought the crystal wand from the Scientology Church and at 250k each they can't afford them right now

It could be that BT's actually prevent planes from crashing but we can't be certain until a plane load of Scientologists (therefore clean of BT's), crashes

I will remain vigilant for such an incident and report back

ps Glenn Beck is a Mormon

Edited July 7, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa