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If they tell me anything I'd follow it, no doubt. This is more in case they don't tell us anything. Either way, oil didn't really do much, and milk and shampoo had promise. I wouldn't suggest having shampoo in or anywhere near your mouth though since that's it's own unpleasantness.

All I remember properly from getting pepperspray in the face, is that if I ever get the stupid idea to go through that again I want someone to punch me in the fucking mouth.

Someone answer me this: Does finding the Higgs boson put us any closer to antigravity devices?

Right now? Not really. As far as I know seperating the particle is still really unstable, so you wouldn't be able to do it on a mass-scale anytime soon.
But what do you mean by anti-gravity devices? Hooverboots maybe? Because we can do that. Potentially lethally, but we can do it.

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The only way we're getting antigravity anything, and I mean real antigravity, is by understanding gravity first. And considering no one really knows how it works or even why it's there, that's going to take a while.

I believe the reason people believe the Higgs Boson can do antigravity stuff is by using it to attribute enough concentrated "mass" above you to cancel out the gravitational forces of the earth. Whether that's possible or not, we won't know until we run experiments. And even if we do, if the cost of isolating and manipulating Higgs Bosons for such a technology is anywhere near as expensive as that for Anti-matter, you could probably bankrupt the world to make a device that could make someone weightless on the earth.

I wasn't thinking any particular pieces of technology. It's just that we understand (at least in a rudimentary way) and know how to manipulate the other three fundamental forces, the only one that still has our physicists stumped is gravity. I figured the Higgs boson was supposed to be the cornerstone of what might one day be manipulation of gravity.

But I am not good at physics so fuck if I know.

Higgs Boson gives matter its mass, which in turn creates gravitational pull. so think of it like having a net (spacetime) hanging above a web of matter (basically, another net with beads/balls at every point where the 2 strings/ropes cross). The web of matter exists in specific instances of time and space, so they have strings connecting the two layers together. At this point, matter has no mass, so there's no gravity generated. However, If we took an iron ball and hooked it to an X (X being a quark, proton, neutron, representative particle of matter, etc.), it'll give it mass which will in turn distort the fabric of spacetime, causing gravity.

The point is to figure out how and why it hooks onto these elemental pieces of matter, and whether we could manipulate it, possibly hooking tons of higgs bosons to something to make it much more massive than it would be normally.

Of course, a lot of this is speculation. We don't know how far the Higgs goes to doing these things and what rules it has to play by. It could be impossible to bunch a lot of them together to do this.

At any rate, it would probably demand vast amounts of energy, since you're changing around the potential energies in the universe.


Not as far as I know. We can use them predictably, like change the charge on something to change it's electromagnetic force, but not mess with the way they fundamentally work. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no particle physicist either.

No, that's what I meant. I mean, we've made electricity work for us, but it's not by changing the way electromagnetism works. We just redirect the flow.

I am bad at words.

Maybe I can clarify now that I don't expect that we'll be able to manipulate gravity itself, as a force, but maybe just steer it in a different direction to make it work for us.

Wheaton is a pretty enthusiastic explainer:

We're that much closer to Mass Effect technology.

Didn't they already make a bad Tom Cruise movie with that premise? I think they did...given that they...reference it in the video clip.

How do they plan on circumventing the issue of preventing the crime leading to the crime being committed where no crime would have happened had they just buggered off?

Minority Report wasn't bad, it was just... there.