The Future is not that far in Japanese culture, In fact look of all the awesome Robot's that they built over the years ever since 1996 the year the I was born!
Along with Tiga, Carranger, and Resident Evil!


Take care and watch out for Terminators!

Trust me, you don't want teleporters.
Why?

because it's basically a fax machine.
It sends a copy of you to your destination, and shreds you into base matter, so that a copy of someone else will be able to arrive at the teleporter you came from.

A teleporter shredding failed in star trek once

Phasers and teleporters, ha! What we will get is soaked to build even bigger tunnels to shoot even smaller bits of matter at each other. Physics stopped caring about inventions some time ago.

Tiger saying it how it is. And I am not trolling you really don't know what you are talking about. Seriously. Did you even study physics?

HEY LOOK GUYS, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT ACTING LIKE THEY DO. WHAT A SURPRISE.

WHERE'S THE JOKE BUCKLEY YOU SAID THERE'D BE A JOKE?!

[url=#user_comment_145361]@Iki[/url]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI6mPDCqEo You're being trolled, stop replying to Igor.

[url=#user_comment_145358]@Igor[/url]: Fine. Quantum Mechanics textbook saying *exactly the same thing*. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JINBouBmkoC&lpg=PA19&dq=photon%20momentum%20rest%20mass&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=photon%20momentum%20rest%20mass&f=false

It's what makes up the Universe and it looks like the FSM

[url=#user_comment_145346]@Iki[/url]: I'm sorry, but I don't waste time explaining stuff to kids on comments of a Webcomic altough I will tell you two things: 1: Wikipedia. Lol. 2: Re-read what you have written and if you can't find your mistake you have a problem.

Jo broke my sarcasm detector...

[url=#user_comment_145313]@Igor[/url]: Oh yes, I'm sure toying with basic arithmetic largely taken from Wikipedia is extremely dangerous. If you have issues with what I've written, detail at least one of them. Otherwise, get off your implied knowledge pedestal.

In some news relevant to people who are alive today, some Scottish nutritionist(s) made a pizza you could eat every day and not flop over dead in two years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18663969

ITT: Science at a high level

@A Troll
It's not really that kind of thing. It just verified a standard model, so now new theories can be built on it. Can't make mass effect bombs with it like some people think.

Which leads to the other part of the conversation, the whole 'weaponizing this thing', blame Humanity, not a specific country people. Because if one country cannot do it, another WILL. End of discussion.

Meh. New laws of physics get discovered every so often. Saying we discovered something new period is like saying we discovered a new, cool looking rock;
It might change how we think about other things, but there will ALWAYS be something new to discover.

Well...I guess all we can do now is put it in a bomb and start an underground civilization based around the worship of Higgs Boson, the God Particle.

so basically i'm not saying it was aliens..... but it was aliens....

Oh yes I am so furious I trashed my home, got evicted, and I'm typing this from my new dumspter next to my new pet rat and some rabid hobo chewing my leg.

Good night.

No seriously.

[url=#user_comment_145311]@Iki[/url]: I don't even know where to start explaining how you're wrong.... kids shouldn't toy with things they don't understand... stop now.

@=|: He already did, even zerg-tan and other minor characters.

[url=#user_comment_145296]@Psycotic[/url]: From the Wikipedia page on Momentum: "The total energy E of a body is related to the relativistic momentum p by: E^2 = (p*c)^2 + (m*c^2)^2 " so if a particle has no mass, it's just E = p*c This is one of the facets of special relativity.

[url=#user_comment_145309]@DYWYPI[/url]: Unfortunately yeah, teleporters and quite possibly faster than light travel are now confirmed to be impossible.

It actually makes them way less likely. If we hadn't found it, our current model for the universe (that predicts the boson in the first place) would have to be thrown out, potentially in favor of one that would allow more interesting SCIENCE!. As it is, we're just left twiddling our thumbs.

[url=#user_comment_145297]@YGUb[/url]: Both of those things have been fixed since he pointed them out. You must be furious.

Whoever Higgs is, I hope Jo makes Rule 34 of her Bosom

SCIENCE ALL UP IN THIS BITCH!

[url=#user_comment_145296]@Psycotic[/url] : For material object, maybe. When dealing with high-level physic, definition tends to get messy. Especially with light. I wouldn't be surprised if physicist (is that it?) had a broader definition for momentum. btw, I always got it as momentum being "directional kinetic energy".

[url=#user_comment_145299]@Salem5[/url] : I am an ingineer, of the nerdy kind (computer/electrical engineering), and I think I'm on the nerdier side of things even where I am. And I can tell you I don't understand it either. I had honestly forgotten why was higgss' so special.

Tbh. when I read about it I were more thinking in dimension twins and portal stuff.

:D they returned!

Marvelous!

She is an engineer though, right?

@Constructive Criticism: You are a fucktard

Everything in this comic is intentional.

Please go back to playmobil.

[url=#user_comment_145284]@Iki[/url]: Being that Momentum is related to an objects Mass and Velocity, I might have an issue with that statement. It may have a similar concept of energy, but if you are saying a Photon has no mass, then it, by definition, has no momentum.

You are missing a word in the second panel: "after all these (years)"

In the third panel, the position of the chat bubbles makes the viewer read the chat bubbles out of order. Consider repositioning them.

awesome, now all we need is to build these retardedly expensive tunnels everywhere so we can shoot single atoms at each other with about $12000 worth of electricity to use them for...what exactly?

[url=#user_comment_145283]@interestedBystander[/url] Now theres an interesting thought. We always tend to think of a 'wave' as a 2-dimensional construct--what if it's more than 2? And we know that high-end gravity and distortion of space-time go hand in hand...what if *all* forces are actually multidimentional vibrations?

More like Higgs bosoM amirite

Do you know where this will lead? Well I do, better get rid of it before you get aliens trying to stop you from making the next leap and becoming competition in some sort of space....thing, giant talking heads and a huge underground facility run by an evil AI with a fetish for neurotoxin.

And laser pistols!

ITT: people discussing things they don't understand

go back to wow kids.

[url=#user_comment_145283]@interestedBystander[/url]: Photons don't have mass, but they do have momentum. When the sail absorbs or reflects the photon, it gains that momentum or double that momentum respectively, which is proportional to the energy of the photon. ( p = E/c )

[url=#user_comment_145272]@Demon[/url] (again) : Another way to see the solar sail problem. Photons have to mass to push the sail. But they have energy that they give to the sail. From there, I'm not sure where the movement comes from. It might be the sail getting electrically charged and pushed by some magnetic phenomenon

Teleporter goin' up !

El Psy Congroo

Your ignorance is amusing.

After all these... what?

[url=#user_comment_145254]@kriss1989[/url]: Sadly, the US did, however, invent modern warfare in general, the atomic bomb, the death camp, and conducted inhuman medical experiments so vile that the Nazis used them as an excuse during the Nuremberg trials, demanding to know why it was acceptable for the US to do worse things.

mass effect.

About the sails : they don't push the sail, I think it's more like it gives energy to the sail directly at the atomic level. And the movement comes from the changes of the atoms. Basically inside the matter of the sail

[url=#user_comment_145267]@Q[/url] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=782

[url=#user_comment_145272]@Demon[/url], that's the catch. They have no MASS, but they hold energy. The way I understand it, photons are like waves on water, the wave has no being, but you see it because it distords water. Accept photon "distords" ambiant electromagnetic field.

Wait, photons have no Mass? Despite being able to move things. I heard the Solar sail was propelled by Photons, something that would suggest that Photons do have mass (where else does the momentum come from).

Isn't it theorized that Black Holes bend light with it's gravitational force?

CERN? OPEN THE STEINS; GATE.

[url=#user_comment_145267]@Q[/url]: Because Gravity from large objects bends space-time like a bitch.

[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Probably not. Gravity, compared to electromagnetism, is really weak. Most nuclei are held by the Strong Nuclear Force, not gravity. As to the HB - it's simply what lets particles interact with the Higgs Field and gain mass. Matter doesn't innately have mass.

All this time it was just sitting there in the broom closet. No one bothered to look before. Silly scientists.

[url=#user_comment_145265]@Aesir_blade[/url]: But if photons are not affected by gravity, how does gravitational lensing work?

If it IS the Higgs Boson, two questions now remain...
One: How do we remove it?
Two: What happens if we remove it?
I already know the answer to two though, and the answer is NOTHING GOOD.

[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Photons, for example, have no mass; they therefore create no gravitational field and are not affected by them.

[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Mass is actually not (stuff). Mass is either inertial mass (resistance of a body to acceleration by forces) or gravitational mass (creates and creates force from gravitational fields); however, these values are the same.

[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: They've been looking for the subatomic particle that actually gives atoms mass. We all know they HAVE mass, but we haven't known WHY. With this knowledge, the combined theory of Physics is possible, among other things.

Wait... if something exists with no mass... no, it doesn't even make sense, as things that exists are still made of something. Last time I checked Matter was Mass (Mass being a measure of Matter), and Matter is things that exists. Which means no matter what you do, things will still have Mass.

[url=#user_comment_145236]@Nuckel[/url]: If you're like 80 years old right now then yeah...our technological and scientific breakthroughs in the last 10 years equates to the entire 1900's, no idea why you think it wont take maybe 10 or 20 years before this is actually used in something.

higgs boson is basically the reason we have mass, without it we would all be weightless and be travelling at the speed of light, which would tear us apart at a molecular level. not to be confused with gravity, gravity is caused by mass and mass is caused by higgs boson.

Wait... lowering the mass... wouldn't that make the distance between the ions greater in the atoms?
Isn't gravity what keeps atoms together?
Wouldn't removing the Higgs-Boson particle would effectively kill things, splitting creatures into ions, never to be reassembled again?

Well, i have lot of fun whit the Fis teacher of my School hehehehe

DO YOU SEE THAT HIGGS BOSON OVER THERE?

So all they need to do - provided it's been the Higgs-Boson particle - that they develop a HB reflecting field. AAaaaand anti-gravity :-)

@Some dude: HEY! We're not the ones who invented landmines, mustard gas, or tanks. Nor was it us who first weaponized dynamite (a construction tool) or Molotov cocktails (weaponized booze), that was Europe. Hell, American invented vaccines were the basis for germ warfare weapons...in Europe.

[url=#user_comment_145250]@Censuur[/url]: This is true. However, this is the first time they've released a discovery that managed to be outside of 5 S.D. The only previous "false" discovery you can be referring to was the neutrinos from a preliminary test that was overhyped by the media.

The "God Particle" name is actually a shorthand form of "[that] GOD DAMNED PARTICLE!"

Yes, but now that we control the elemental partical of mass.... breasts can be as large as we like, without back aches and sagging!

Or at least, that's what my immediate reaction was.

Lets be honest here, cern has been a massive waste of money in terms of practical output, and most of the things they "discover" are found to be inaccurate later, the main issue being that the research at cern isn't subjected to peer reviews, humanity only has one of them and thats not good enough

@ON the Bright Side: Well, the research isn't in America, so I think it'll stay unweaponised for a bit longer.

How long until it's weaponized?

"THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING"

Expect practical applications in 50 or so years. Back to work everyone...

I had a near identical conversation with my girlfriend, she would sympathize with the Orange Engie.

While I may known nothing about particles I do know something about fanservice, dat outfit on Orange Engie.
/richboyface

http://u18chan.com/uploads/user/Higgs_u18chan.jpg

I guess none of us will live to see any of the fancy new technologies that might emerge from all this...

This reminds me of a conversation I had with my girlfriend before this comic went up.

[url=#user_comment_145223]@Knowitall[/url] Wait... If removing this particle can remove something's mass, then does that mean we can make things less heavy? Weight is based on mass, and with less mass, less effect from gravity. So we can make things less heavy. Like giant mecha that won't be crushed under their own weight?

It to test the theory that energy do become matter. IO think the test is to crash two x cell together to from energy.

Duracell powered overlighttravel yeah!

science rules

BILL BILL BILL BILL

To quote Star Trek:

"The wait is over."

[url=#user_comment_145212]@FunkyMonk[/url]: Dr. Pepperian? I'll agree with this actually http://xkcd.com/955/ While cool, what I'd want to see for gaming is quantum entanglement and near 0 lag network communication regardless of physical distance.

The God Particle is going to open up entirelly new laws of physics, this can completely change the way we look at the universe. Understanding and being able to calculate mass in objects could theortically allow us to remove the mass of an object all together if we cut out the God Particle.

So what can we learn from something like the Higgs-Boson Particle?

Higgs-Boson Particle= the God particle= the theoretical particle that gives all matter mass. Pretty much one of science's Holy Grails. So yeah, if it IS the Higgs-Boson that they've found, awesome!

Hurray for science?

This is not the will of Stien's Gate

El. Psy. Congoroo.

Is that mean more hats for me?

it's SCIENCE

Yay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI6mPDCqEo

You're being trolled, just stop replying to Igor the fucktard.