Results from the LHC soon?

That is the big problem. Three interactions, nuclear strong, electromagnetic and nuclear weak, are included in the Standard Model. Gravity is not and is still a kind of island. Even Einstein failed in his unified field theory, although that included only em and gravity, not the nuclear forces. Perhaps we need a new Einstein more than a new accelerator.
Tullio

Well, Einstein solved the mystery of the photoelectric effect via the Planck quantum, created special relativity, general relativity, introduced the idea of stimulated emission of radiation which gave birth to maser and laser, made also other contribution to physics which it would take too much time to explain (but see the book by Abraham Pais).What I would like to remember today is the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox of 1935 which opened new horizons to quantum mechanics and the following works by John Bell, the Bell inequalities, confirmed experimentally by Alain Aspect which brought to the entanglement phenomenon used in quantum cryptography, and, possibly, in quantum computers. He deserved at least 5 Nobel prizes and got only one, for the photoelectric effect, none for relativity.
Tullio
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EINSTEIN came to Princeton University in 1935 and was asked what he would require
for his study. he replied: "A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket to hold all of my mistakes."

Prof Stephen Hawking, talks in the short video.
I stayed up watching the live feed. Physics, is hard to understand.



Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

That is the big problem. Three interactions, nuclear strong, electromagnetic and nuclear weak, are included in the Standard Model. Gravity is not and is still a kind of island. Even Einstein failed in his unified field theory, although that included only em and gravity, not the nuclear forces. Perhaps we need a new Einstein more than a new accelerator.
Tullio

I'm not too sure Einstein would agree with you here, Tulio. Einstein did not
consider himself any more intelligent than his contemporaries. He stated that
his successes were down to him being prepared to spend more time and putting more
effort into his research.

Guys,
The presentations made by the two scientists at that conference was way too detailed for what was needed. Both of them went through page after page of very deep mathematics, and each page was full of abbreviations that only a CERN insider could understand. I bet that any physicist what watched those presentations would also have struggled to keep up with what they were explaining.

The presentations should have been much shorter and with simpler "bullet points". But i suppose those scientists are buried so deep inside the science of what they are doing, in their minds, it was clear.

John.

What Eienstein considered himself to be is not relevant. One can be a genius and not contribute anything of significance to mankind's body of knowledge. Eienstein's contribution is unmistakable most probably because he had all of the qualities needed to put his thoughts in order and come up with the revelations now being used in science. This is what I think Tullio was referring to in his comment regarding the need for another Einstein.

Nick, a notional IQ does not indicate a genius that Einstein demonstrably was. I have an IQ of 148, and I struggle big time to understand both of Einsteins relativity theories .....

I would say that quantum mechanics is more difficult to understand than relativity, and not because of the equations, that are simpler to integrate than Einstein's non linear equations. Chemists regularly use the Schroedinger equation to study the properties of molecules using approximate methods (such as Hartree-Fok or density functional theory and MonteCarlo) without caring much about the philosophy underlying it. Einstein understood it perfectly and reacted saying "God does not play dice".
Tullio
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It's an historic time! Kudos to the LHC staff!
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!
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That was on the Cattell B III Nick. Mensa did require 150+ to join, looks like they've dropped it these days.

@Nick

On the Culture Fair test used by British Mensa, a score of 132 places a candidate in the top two per cent of the population (the average IQ is taken as 100). On the Cattell B III, also commonly used by Mensa, a score of 148 or above would be required. All members of Mensa are in the top two per cent by IQ whichever scale their intelligence was measured by.

My test was many years ago, probably irrelevant now. I might have another go one day, I'll see. It's not important.

Mensa Supervised test sessions currently comprise two test papers. One is diagrammatical while the other measures largely verbal reasoning ability.

Mensa Q&A

Funny thing about the old Higgs Boson;
Physicists spent 40 years looking for it. Very elusive!
Physicists claim the Higgs Boson can explain why matter has mass and everything else in the whole universe!
Then they find it, big announcement, big party!

But now its old news, that's it, finished. Over and done with!!
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Does anyone see what the true problem is here?

There is a really big problem here with the announcement of the new "Higgs Boson like" particle! Can anyone tell me what the problem is?
Anyone at all?
Anyone including Nick and Chris who both seem to think they have above average IQ's! Common guys, let's really see how clever you are.

What's wrong with the big announcement they just made at CERN?
Do any of you ever understand what they just announced?
And can anyone spot the error or problem in the announcement they made?

(No tricks here. I will tell you the answer!)

John.