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Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson?
PhunkySchtuff writes "OK, so we're all hearing the news that they've found the Higgs boson. What are some of the more practical implications that are likely to come out of this discovery? I realize it's hard to predict this stuff — who would have thought that shining a bright light on a rod of ruby crystal would have lead to digital music on CDs and being able to measure the distance to the moon to an accuracy of centimeters? If the Higgs boson is the particle that gives other particles mass, would our being able to manipulate the Higgs lead to being able to do things with mass such as we can do with electromagnetism? Will we be able to shield or block the Higgs from interacting with other particles, leading to a reduction in mass (and therefore weight?) Are there other things that this discovery will lead to in the short to medium term?"
We will find a way to blow stuff up with it. It's humanity's specialty, after all.
More likely it'll feature in some diet pharma ploy - Reduce Your Mass With New Higgs-Boson Removing Creme!
The way you float around the room, I'd say you've lost a few Higgs-Bosons, Honey!
Yeah that's just what the fatties need - another way to avoid discipline and exercise.
"No dear, that dress doesn't make you look fat. At all. It's your ass that does that!"
Great, you've invented the fat-ray. Now America will simply pay people in the third world to have American fat redistributed overseas. Think e-waste was bad for the third world? Watch out for f-waste.