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LHC, CERN Has Found the Hugs Boson

An anonymous reader writes "In a ground-breaking announcement issued today, CERN NASA PETA NAMBLA , the European Organization of Nuclear Research (which hosts the enormous and magnificent glorious orgasmic catastrophic Large Hadron Collider) has announced the discovery of the hugs boson, an unexpected gauge boson which was not predicted prognosticated invented baked by the Standard Model. Unexpectedly, the discovery was made by a high-school mascot student teacher gymnasium during his scholarship. Due to his Tourette's age face breath , it is not clear whether he can be awarded the Nobel Prize. However, his teacher has generously agreed to be awarded in his name, in case of any problems reprisals assassins aliens ."

86 comments

  1. Awwwwww by suso · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I love this new particle. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

    1. Re:Awwwwww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Eww. Something warm and fuzzy inside...

    2. Re:Awwwwww by BJ_Covert_Action · · Score: 3, Funny

      It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

      That's because it is small enough to penetrate your skin, and it is currently opening a microscopic blackhole in your liver.

    3. Re:Awwwwww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

      So does plutonium.

    4. Re:Awwwwww by Culture20 · · Score: 2

      It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

      What you have there is [[Blackbody Radiation][Acid Reflux][Cowboy Neil]].

    5. Re:Awwwwww by Kosi · · Score: 2

      Finally, a place to deposit all the ethanol, amphetamine, heroin or whatever is your drug of choice! Go, Hugs boson!

    6. Re:Awwwwww by WhitetailKitten · · Score: 2

      Friendship is magic.

    7. Re:Awwwwww by Sulphur · · Score: 2

      I don't know about you, but I love this new particle. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

      Classic symptoms of Hugs Boson poisoning.

  2. This is just so not funny :( by tkprit · · Score: 1

    hatin on AF, pardon :)

  3. There's really no point... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...in reading Slashdot today.

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    1. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Wrong again Mr. Piss. As usual your attempt to quash the fun of people who actually have a sense of humor fails. Perhaps you could become an archaeologist and search for your petrified funny bone?

    2. Re:There's really no point... by M8e · · Score: 2

      What?
      This is the only day of the year that /. have new news!

    3. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It would be one thing if these supposed "jokes" were funny. Unfortunately, they are not. One has to question your sense of humor that you find even the stupidest of "jokes" to be funny. Let me guess, you roll over laughing at a guy getting kicked in the nuts, right?

    4. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      seeing anonymous coward #1 kicked in the nuts would make me laugh!!!

    5. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No, because one joke is okay but every single article today seems to be fake. I agree with #1, this is annoying. I smiled at the first joke, now I want actual news. There's tons of humor websites if I want nothing but jokes.

    6. Re:There's really no point... by easyTree · · Score: 2

      Re:There's really no point......in reading Slashdot today.

      It's only one day. Digg-readers have to put up with this shit for the rest of the year.

    7. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've read it on April Fools every single year for the last decade just to reply to the grouches. ;) RELAX A LITTLE.

    8. Re:There's really no point... by ninjacheeseburger · · Score: 1

      Same reliable news as usual...

    9. Re:There's really no point... by Opie812 · · Score: 2

      no kidding. April Fools day is the worst day for slashdot. One or two articles might be funny, but for a whole day? How am I to pass the time at work?

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    10. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair, that's pretty funny sometimes too.

    11. Re:There's really no point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How could you not find the Hugs Boson funny? Mr. Humorless Coward! Come on, that is funny. I hear the smartest folks usually do like word play humor so that must be me. Seeing some guy kicked in the nuts? Not so funny. Well, it could be if the setup was good enough and they made sure they did enough character development to show the audience that the guy was a royal jerk. Then seeing him kicked in the nuts would be funny. Without that, not so much. But yeah, puns, twisting word meanings, etc. - hella funny. If you actually RTFA they go into how the "Top Quark" gets lots of hugs, but the Strange Quark doesn't. Oh, and the Charm Quark is quite the Hugs'er...

    12. Re:There's really no point... by sznupi · · Score: 1

      Sometimes I slightly hope for the joke of such fairly big site without "jokes" on 1IV... maybe one year, maybe I'll live long enough.

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    13. Re:There's really no point... by sznupi · · Score: 2

      Maybe the reason some of us are not laughing anymore is because we have a sense of humor.

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    14. Re:There's really no point... by MacAnkka · · Score: 1

      Isn't that true even on normal days?

    15. Re:There's really no point... by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      The jokes are often funny. The question is whether the /. summaries are.

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    16. Re:There's really no point... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 1

      I think it'd be a pretty good joke if for April 1st, The Onion only had accurate, serious coverage of real stories.

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    17. Re:There's really no point... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 1

      There's really no point... ...in reading Slashdot today.

      Derr. Cos, you know, Slashdot spends every April 1st at the height of it's journalistic value.

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    18. Re:There's really no point... by sznupi · · Score: 1

      Might have so-so of an effect - the tragedy of Onion is how often their stories turn out to be more accurate (in a way) in the long run, etc.

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  4. April Fools by dakkon1024 · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the April Fools...

    1. Re:April Fools by Pieroxy · · Score: 1

      I'm waiting for the April Fools...

      It looks like you're already there.

  5. They found the Huge Bosom, eh? by countertrolling · · Score: 2

    How much does it weigh?

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  6. well i already dont like this by nopainogain · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the editing feature turning what i once enjoyed as a reputable information source into something of juvenile amusement.

    1. Re:well i already dont like this by Pieroxy · · Score: 1

      What exactly did you enjoy "as a reputable information source"? Slashdot?

    2. Re:well i already dont like this by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      the editing feature turning what i once enjoyed as a reputable information source into something of juvenile amusement.

      Next you'll say that "OMG Ponies!" wasn't the groundbreaking UI design that we all know it was.

  7. Plagiarism. by leaen · · Score: 2, Funny

    He just copied result of 12-year old which predicted boson when he corrected Einsten`s theory of relativity

  8. RSS feed by q-the-impaler · · Score: 4, Informative

    These summaries are much more informative when read via RSS

    An anonymous reader writes "In a ground-breaking announcement issued today, CERN NASA PETA NAMBLA , the European Organization of Nuclear Research (which hosts the enormous and magnificent glorious orgasmic catastrophic Large Hadron Collider) has announced the discovery of the hugs boson, an unexpected gauge boson which was not predicted prognosticated invented baked by the Standard Model. Unexpectedly, the discovery was made by a high-school mascot student teacher gymnasium during his scholarship. Due to his Tourette's age face breath , it is not clear whether he can be awarded the Nobel Prize. However, his teacher has generously agreed to be awarded in his name, in case of any problems reprisals assassins aliens ."

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    1. Re:RSS feed by Pieroxy · · Score: 1

      Actually, this version made me laugh! Only on RSS feeds to you get down to the guts of the real April's fool.

  9. Link in summary ... by PPH · · Score: 1

    ... is NOT Goatse!

    Or is it???

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  10. Bravo by kehren77 · · Score: 1

    Okay this one was close enough to a real headline to make me forget it was April 1st and click on the story.

    Damn you /. for making me think we'd made a real scientific breakthrough.

    1. Re:Bravo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh, me too; for a split second I forgot...

  11. THESE JOKES FUCKING SUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Get over yourself, slashdot.

  12. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    An average bison might weigh 2000 pounds, so I'd imagine a Huge Bison would weigh at least double that.

  13. The Hugs Boson Is How Hadrons Get Their Mass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It can be embarrassing at times.

  14. I liked by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 1

    The CERN article is very, very funny

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  15. They missed out by pangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hugs Bosom.

    1. Re:They missed out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hugs Bison.

    2. Re:They missed out by fightinfilipino · · Score: 2

      Hugs Bosom.

      nah, scientists are unlikely to find THAT particle...

  16. Re:April Fools... by edumacator · · Score: 1

    April Fools....

    When people with no sense of humor show their true colors. As if reading these stories causes any kind of problem.

  17. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about a Dyson Bison, a spherical-shell-shaped bison with a star in the center?

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  18. chosen ones, holycosters, hitting huge bottom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    new bible? offers for delays & modifications to our 'reward' have been met with less than enthusiastic responses from the flock, & the unproven sacrificial sheeps

  19. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 2

    I haven't giggled at /. in ages, but "Dyson Bison" did it for me. I love you.

    Also, QOTD:

    We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydides

    I guess doing them is one way.

  20. NO hugging by Roduku · · Score: 5, Funny

    If anything coming out of the LHC tries to hug me, I still have my crowbar.

    1. Re:NO hugging by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hugs always have unforeseen consequences

  21. Goddamnit by floppypond · · Score: 1

    I just about shat my pants when I read the headline, before I realized that 'higgs' was 'hugs' and it's the internet's most celebrated holiday.

  22. Re:Shat by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 1

    What was William Shatner's reaction?

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  23. Shrugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...move on!

  24. HAY!!!!1!1!1! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WHY CAN"T I CHOOSE THE FIRST WORD IN THE DROPDOWN LIST? TYPICAL BORKEN SLASHDOT FAILURE

    don't use so many caps, it's like poo
    don't use so many caps, it's like poo
    don't use so many caps it's like poo

  25. Re:Shat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We're still.. WAITING.. for him to... complete.. his sentence.

  26. Enthusiastic responses by amazeofdeath · · Score: 1

    Klaus Fuchs and Vladimir Fock welcome the news, though they still hope a deeper penetration into the data.

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  27. Alien assasins! by JAlexoi · · Score: 1

    However, his teacher has generously agreed to be awarded in his name, in case of any alien assassins.

    What alien assassins want from an ordinary Tourettes suffering school mascot?

  28. Re:Shat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But.
    He.
    Doesn't.
    Talk.
    Like.
    Every.
    Word.
    Is.
    A.
    Sentence.

  29. But you are anyway. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Then don't.

  30. I wonder... by tool462 · · Score: 1

    Is it a reflection of the generally crappy editing in Slashdot headlines or my excessive gullibility that my heart skipped a beat in excitement as I read "Hugs Boson"?

    I'm hoping it's the former, because I could really use a Hugs Boson today...

  31. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by SnarfQuest · · Score: 1

    For now, all we have is a Nivin Bison, a bison ring around a star, which has been infested by Microsoft drones, so it isn't safe to go there any more.

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  32. Indeed. There's only one problem by Kupfernigk · · Score: 1
    Who will ever trust a CERN press release again? Because some of the stuff that is going on nowadays seems to be about as plausible.

    Reading Scientific American this month, I realised for the first time that the diameter of the Universe at the end of the proposed inflationary period was about 15mm. If someone put that in an April Fool, how many people would believe it, either way? "Early Universe expanded faster than the speed of light to the size of a grape".

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  33. Slashdot April fools is lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is funny to try to sneak one article in. That would be "cute" and everyone would go about their day. Most of us have slashdot in an rss just for news in tech - why waste a day of not posting anything? Besides the joke articles are lame.

    1. Re:Slashdot April fools is lame by Disstress · · Score: 1

      It is funny to try to sneak one article in. That would be "cute" and everyone would go about their day. Most of us have slashdot in an rss just for news in tech - why waste a day of not posting anything? Besides the joke articles are lame.

      If you read /. for tech news you are about a week or two behind the world.

  34. Do I have to solve them all? by kyrio · · Score: 1

    Is that how it works this year?

  35. Deviant behavior in physics by Tisha_AH · · Score: 1

    It used to be that deviant behavior in physics involved "dirty dicking the 0-1 rod".

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  36. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    where do they put the horns?

  37. When I collide my large hardon... by slimjim8094 · · Score: 1

    When I collide my large hardon I sometimes get bosom hugs too.

    Oh.... hadron...
    I like mine better.

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    1. Re:When I collide my large hardon... by kvvbassboy · · Score: 1

      Damn it. You sir, made my day. =D Mod parent up.

  38. Mark off one day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...that is as close as Cern will come to admitting uselessness.

  39. Am I the only one by polaris20 · · Score: 1

    who doesn't find April's Day joke articles all that funny anymore? They remind me of the Super Bowl ads......formerly funny, now just tired. The Thinkgeek.com fake products are good today. I totally want the Angry Birds pork rinds.

  40. RSS feeds are at least colourful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    An anonymous reader writes "In a ground-breaking announcement issued today, CERN
    NASA PETA NAMBLA , the European Organization of Nuclear Research (which hosts
    the enormous and magnificent glorious orgasmic catastrophic Large Hadron
    Collider) has announced the discovery of the hugs boson, an unexpected gauge
    boson which was not predicted prognosticated invented baked by the Standard
    Model. Unexpectedly, the discovery was made by a high-school mascot student
    teacher gymnasium during his scholarship. Due to his Tourette's age face breath
    , it is not clear whether he can be awarded the Nobel Prize. However, his
    teacher has generously agreed to be awarded in his name, in case of any problems
    reprisals assassins aliens ."

    but somewhat repetitive. CERN NASA PETA NAMBLA got to be one of the most ambitious organizations on the planet.

  41. shit I'm gullible. by Chewbacon · · Score: 1

    I saw boson in my RSS feed and got excited.

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    1. Re:shit I'm gullible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I saw boson in my RSS feed and got excited.

      -spoiler alert-

      I was thinking there was something off about "beauty quarks" but then again, this is on the CERN website.....if anyone would know, it would be them, not me. HAH! My favourite April Fools of the year, subtle, plausible....

  42. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    a Dyson Bison, a spherical-shell-shaped bison

    But is it frictionless?

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  44. Personally I preferred... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Personally I preferred it when they discovered the Higg's Bozo