Higgs Boson Particle Found

[quido]

lol @ RL Gordon

[azeth]

young physicists

[mgellan]

No one knew what the hell you might use an electron for when it was first hypothesized, I think we figured out useful things to use it for.... dragon pixels!

One cool thing I've seen as a possible use is to "de-mass" spacecraft (since the Higgs field imbues other particles with mass) so they can travel at lightspeed without needing infinite energy to accelerate their mass to lightspeed. Doesn't do squat for time dialation but travelling at the speed of light would mean that from your perspective, all trips of all distances would be instantaneous.

Regards,
Mg

[Hitchens]

Originally Posted by Massive Marc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Doors, actually a physicist by the name of Amit Goswami has already claimed to have proved God exists through Quantum Physics:

http://www.amitgoswami.org/

His documentary was interesting.

Deepak Chopra uses the same claims to sell his books. Both are absurd.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Hitchens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Deepak Chopra uses the same claims to sell his books. Both are absurd.

/agree

It's amazing how much legitimacy using the word "quantum" adds to complete and utter mystical bullshit to people that don't understand what the hell quantum means. Chopra has been peddling the same woo for years on this, it's not surprising other people want to jump on the gravy train.

When someone other than a physicist says "quantum" treat it as lies! Kind of like "One time a friend of mine..." or "I'll tell ya this, no kidding, ... "

Regards,
Mg

[Hitchens]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo

[Kimm Barely]

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[MrSparkle001]

Originally Posted by Hitchens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Deepak Chopra uses the same claims to sell his books. Both are absurd.

So physicists that don't believe in God = good and worth listening to; physicists that believe in God and try to understand spirituality through physics = bad and crackpots you shouldn't listen to.

Way to keep an open, scientific mind.

"If it doesn't agree with my preconceived notions it must be false"

[Safon]

We got God haters up in this thread? Things should get interesting as usual then!

[Massive Marc]

Originally Posted by Hitchens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Deepak Chopra uses the same claims to sell his books. Both are absurd.

While I don't necessarily believe all/any of his theories, I wouldn't call them absurd. I thought his documentary was pretty interesting and that kind of outside of the box thinking, I believe, helps with progressing our understanding of.. well everything. If he's wrong we learn, if he's right we learn. I don't believe he's just another wack job trying to sell books.

Mr Sprakle is very right with his comment and as a side note: I really think any explanation of God in any form is going to sound absurd. Short of him walking on a cloud up to the Vatican in front of thousands of video cameras, it's going to be a tough pill to swallow.