A HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE FOUND!!!!!!!!!

[Soleron]

Salnax said:

wfz said:

So.. what does this mean for us? What can we now do more effectively, or what can we look forward to creating in the future?

Off the top of my head: we can convert particles back and forth between matter and energy in order to gain theoretically infinite power. But that won't happen for decades.

Basically, this is the rough equivalent of discovering the nucleus in atoms back in 1911. It took people until 1945 to use this knowledge, and even then it took a huge government project. But the results started an age.

Sorry, no. This is not an energy source and honestly no one has a use for this yet. But understanding the very basics of physics like this is always worthwhile. It allows us to narrow down the possible theories about how the universe works; the longer we run the LHC accelerator the more new stuff we will see and the closer we will be to a theory that unifies our descriptions of gravity and quantum mechanics, which is the long-term goal here.