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Inflaton, Mother of the Universe

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the mom-i-want-a-sandwich dept.

quantalm writes "Forget the god particle, we're talking about the universe's particle mother. The theory of supersymmetry has rolled out two new ideas about the particle that puffed spacetime up from smaller than a proton to bigger than a soccer ball: it could be the 'unified particle' of Grand Unified Theories or a smaller-scale version that could be tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."

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  1. inflaton? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    i don't know about unifying electromagnetism and gravity, but it seems like someone just unified economics and quantum mechanics

    just tell us how to avoid the deflaton particle for the next few years

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    1. Re:inflaton? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If those two particles meet, they don't cancel out - they actually cause a rift in the space-time continuum that is so catastrophic that it convinces people to take out sub-prime home equity loans.

    2. Re:inflaton? by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

      So that's where the money went: Into subprime space.

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    3. Re:inflaton? by SydShamino · · Score: 5, Funny

      There might or might not be a $20 bill in my wallet; I won't know for certain until I look for it?

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    4. Re:inflaton? by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, but property in subprime space is cheeeeeep!

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    5. Re:inflaton? by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

      In subprime space, nobody can hear you default.

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    6. Re:inflaton? by DreadPiratePizz · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Anyway just .02 cents." Do you happen to work for Verizon?

    7. Re:inflaton? by Tetsujin · · Score: 3, Funny

      There might or might not be a $20 bill in my wallet; I won't know for certain until I look for it?

      No $20 bill... But my cat just died.

      Thanks, a lot, jerk.

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  2. Re:I love scientists. by boowax · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm Sparticles!

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  3. Re:I love scientists. by SleazyRidr · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, I'm Sparticles!

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  4. This just in from LHC.... by MaggieL · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Oops. Sorry about those extra universes that just leaked out."

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  5. Freudian slip by Xacid · · Score: 2, Funny

    My initial reading of the subject:

    Inflation of Mother, like a Universe.

    1. Re:Freudian slip by ruiner13 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your mom is so inflated, your dad had to roll her in flour and find the wet spot.

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    2. Re:Freudian slip by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your mom is so inflated, your dad had to roll her in flour and find the wet spot.

      Nah, you need to go full on physics here.

      "You mom is so inflated, your dad had to roll her up like a Calabi-Yau manifold and look for the Casimir effect!"

      Thank you! Am I right? Huh? Huh? Am I? Huh?

      Oh, shut up.

    3. Re:Freudian slip by Xacid · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Only a topologist could find her parts attractive".

    4. Re:Freudian slip by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, accept...

      Oh shit!

      *runs from the grammar nazis*

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  6. you've just described the quantum mechanics behind by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    the creation of the moron particle

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  7. Re:I love scientists. by Sparticles · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nope, that's me.

  8. Re:Has anything to come out of string theory ... by sgt101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that there are some really interesting predictions of how gravity should behave on a submicron scale which could rule out (or in) large number of potential string theories.

    Of course, while I can imagine that gravity could be tested on a submicron scale when I start to try and imagine what kind of experiment could be constructed that actually did that I start to flail about and gape and make little clucking noises. I expect there are a fair number of physics fellas doing the same.

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  9. Re:Has anything to come out of string theory ... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... actually been proven?

    Yes: We have conclusive proof that string theory leads to publications. :-)

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  10. Re:I love scientists. by WestCoastBogeyMan · · Score: 1, Funny

    No! I'm Sparticles, and so's my wife.

  11. Re:Inflationary theory by h4rm0ny · · Score: 4, Funny

    I should be clear: My experience is with scalar field inflation with a quadratic potential

    The world needs a lot more people who say things like this. :D

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