Around 50 years ago, a man was sitting on his own in his room at university. In front of him was a blank sheet of paper. In his hand was a pencil. In his mind was an idea. An idea about a missing piece in a highly complex jigsaw. An unimaginably minuscule particle that with other similar particles, created a field. This field was the field that gave the universe mass, which created the conditions for matter to clump together and in doing so, created stars, planets and us. He began to write on the paper. 50 years later his idea (and that of a few others) had driven a project to build one of the largest man-made structures ever. It requited the multi-national cooperation of scientists, engineers and construction companies. Costing billions of pounds and requiring the power input of a small country, the experiment last year generated the data that proved beyond any doubt whatsoever, that the idea he'd had 50 years ago about a particle and a universally pervading field was right.The Higgs Boson had been found. I don't know about you, but I think that is truly awesome. It makes me feel very small in the scheme of things.
I'm wondering if this should be merged with that other scientific thread he did? Because I don't know what he's on about I'm not quite sure?
I didn't do that other thread. Donga did. The OP has my personal thoughts on just what was achieved first by a few people and then an awful lot of people.
How does that work? If you close it, it's your fault or did the universe just change? Seems likely with all these threads.
The norms can't see who closed it. They only know if you or one of the other mods choose to tell them
Erm Luv, everyone can see this conversation At least RHC's thread got some replies now, its horrible to just see one free falling
