i once pointed out to a guy i was in school with about how every time particle physicists can't quite explain something, they decide it must be done by an as-yet-to-be-discovered particle. he said there have been a few of those that were right so the theory must be working but i always found it to be kind of a cop-out. yeah, the math describes *something* but i can't believe that every damn thing has to have a particle (or multiple particles) attached to it. meh, if they find all 5 particles i'll be supremely impressed with them. but i'm sure they'll get close to finding one or two then decide that there are a few more particles that describe the particles they haven't found yet 
It worked the first couple times, so it became a panacea. If the detectors aren't finding it, we need a bigger detector; it doesn't prove the thing doesn't exist, because you can't prove a negative. But we know it's there because the theory requires it; you just have to have fai--oh crap, this may not be science any more....
You have to admit, the "God particle" is aptly named.
Though it's still not as good as "giant radiating dyke swarms. "
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US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'
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I minored in modern physics, which means, I have enough knowledge to be.....
- 15/06/2010 04:45:35 AM
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this has always bothered me about particle physicists....
- 15/06/2010 05:32:26 AM
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Yeah, always been my problem, too.
- 15/06/2010 05:44:30 AM
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Lederman wanted to call it "the goddamn particle," but the publisher wouldn't let him.
- 15/06/2010 06:26:56 AM
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Well, we've been pretty bad at name stuff
- 15/06/2010 08:52:09 AM
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"Giant radiating dyke swarms"?!!! 
- 15/06/2010 05:57:11 PM
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This I can believe.
- 15/06/2010 06:02:37 PM
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It's more than a few right answers.
- 15/06/2010 06:26:35 AM
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did you go to school in wisconsin? cause you sound just like that guy
- 15/06/2010 07:07:49 AM
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Yet, when determining the measure for what a planet is, Pluto vanished from the list!
- 15/06/2010 07:14:28 AM
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right, but it's still out there in the same orbit with the same momentum and positioning
- 15/06/2010 08:45:43 AM
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It had to lose its status or you'd have to memorize several more planets
- 15/06/2010 08:57:20 AM
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y'all are screwing up my "uncertainty principle" joke dammit! 
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- 15/06/2010 09:19:11 AM
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Totally missed it *NM*
I was disappointed they didn't make all the dwarf planets into planet planets.
- 16/06/2010 01:00:51 PM
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As a physicist, I find this quite interesting.
- 16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM
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Not quite.
- 16/06/2010 09:57:18 PM
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Re: Not quite.
- 16/06/2010 10:22:14 PM
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