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Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc

Posted by timothy on from the so-what's-it-like-meeting-god dept.

Giovanni Organtini of Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics (well, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) has agreed to answer questions about the recent observations of a particle consistent with the Higgs Boson. Dr. Organtini is part of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He is careful to note that while the researchers "[believe] that this new particle, with a mass 125 times that of a proton, is the famous Higgs boson," they "need to study that new particle more deeply in the next months to be conclusive on that. Organtini likes free software (he's written Linux device drivers, too) and has his own physics-heavy YouTube channel, mostly in Italian. Please confine questions to one per post, but feel free to ask as many as you'd like.

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  1. Article title by psergiu · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc"

    Is the Higgs Boson disc-shaped or is Timothy too lazy to use the preview button before posting ?

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    1. Re:Article title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      And we were only one character away from discussing the "Higgs Boson Disco"!

    2. Re:Article title by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc"

      Is the Higgs Boson disc-shaped or is Timothy too lazy to use the preview button before posting ?

      No, what he meant was that Organtini is going to put a bunch of Higgs Bosons on a DVD and sell them to people who want them. This is your chance to ask questions before you buy, such as:

      How many bosons will be on the disc?

      Will I be able to view them on Linux?

      Why not just make them available for download?

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    3. Re:Article title by Dewin · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, what he meant was that Organtini is going to put a bunch of Higgs Bosons on a DVD and sell them to people who want them.

      I don't think Higgs Bosons will catch the interest of the mass market.

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  2. Re:When Does the Particle Hunt End? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Boson to rule them all, One Boson to find them, One Boson to bring them all and in the black hole bind them