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Nope. Ger. Higgs-Boson. But if you call it a particle, which some say you shouldn't (Stephen Wolfam does in his long article for Wired) then it is Higgs-Teilchen. Or the Higgs-Feld for Higgs field, and best of all, Higgs-mechanismus for Higgs mechanism.
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"If the Higgs Boson Particle did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it"
Ampere, 2012
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"If the Higgs Boson Particle did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it"
Ampere, 2012
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... Voltaire's not the force he was is he?
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... Voltaire's not the force he was is he?
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No, there's quite a lot of resistance to him these days. I tend to insulate myself against such thoughts, I don't like shocks at my age. |
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No, there's quite a lot of resistance to him these days. I tend to insulate myself against such thoughts, I don't like shocks at my age.
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... yes, my capacity is impeded too
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Since you know why the f stop numbers are what they are and you can still expose film and make a 50 year old camera work, you might be asked about the Higgs Boson. This Wired article and its links is excellent.
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Is this a rangefinder camera or a SLR camera?????
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More bad jokes;
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .
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will this help us to create a better camera bag?
(someone had to ask...)
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Sorry, no. Only straps! 
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This is a singer named Rebecca Higgs. Does this mean I've found the Higgs Bosom?
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Loved your mathematicians joke Al.
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More bad jokes;
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .
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Mrs. Schrödinger to Mr. Schrödinger: "What the hell did you do to the cat? It looks half dead!"
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... so Schrodinger's cat hides in Descartes' metaphorical tree just when Aenesidemus walks past and doesn't notice
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It's over my head........
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This is a singer named Rebecca Higgs. Does this mean I've found the Higgs Bosom?
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... driving round and round the beltway and occasionally crashing into each other?
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No, they are in state houses, congress and on K street...
(Although, having driven the beltway, I can imagine the beltway as the LHC with cars instead of protons.)
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More bad jokes;
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't .
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Nice one! My favorite science jioke though is the following:
Rene Descarte walks into a bar.
The bartender asks him if he would like a drink.
Rene says 'I think not", and promptly disappears.
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Loved your mathematicians joke Al.
I must say that Peter Higgs lends just a little dignity to this very expensive discovery, a dignity which is seriously eroded by the fact that the thing is called a boson. I had hoped the Large Hadron Collider might find something more grandly named. I wonder what is the German for boson — maybe that has a more impressive sound.
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Boson is not sexy or German. Its named after this pioneering Indian scientist, Satyendra Nath Bose; also famous for Bose-Einstein statistics.
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A Higgs-Bboson walks into a liturgical church.
Priest hurries over and says, "I'm very, very sorry, but we don't allow Higgs-Bosons in here."
HB: "But, without me, you can't have mass!"
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