Interesting quotes from tonight's CERN live Google Hangout:

Originally shared by Ivan Raszl

Interesting quotes from tonight's CERN live Google Hangout:

1. CERN physicists waited to publish about Higgs Boson until they were sure about it at a 5 sigma level vs. medical doctors who publish a paper based on 3 patients sample. :)

2. LHC expensive? It costed only about as much as 3-4 US bombers. ;)

3. It may take up to 100 years to see the practical application of Higgs Boson. :O

4. It is likely there are 5 Higgs Bosons out there.

5. Next tasks at LHC: prove/disprove supper-symmetry (string theory), find dark matter and anything else that's new

6. Look up LHC sound to hear what the LHC sounds like

7. Eventually the world will run out of liquid He, which is needed for the research, LHC wastes almost nothing, it's a closed system

8. M or String theory is not proved or disproved by discovery of the Higgs Boson.

9. We would need a billion times more than the LHC's energy in an accelerator to find a grand unified theory.

10. We can't remove the Higgs field and create a hover-board (Back to the future). It's a property of the vacuum.

11. LHC will use full power in about 2 years.

12. LHC's electricity and water bill is 66 million euros per year. Most of the electricity is used by the computers the 10 thousand scientists use.

13. Not everyone was working on the Higgs, only about 10% of the staff.

14. LHC never found particles disappearing into other dimensions. Even though they are looking for this phenomena specifically.

15. Higgs field doesn't have a direction. Unlike gravity for example.

16. The best part of working at CERN is when scientists from all around the world are working together on a single specific question.

17. Finally, one of the CERN physicists found out the solution to unbalanced round coffee tables while he was taking a rest from his work. He theorized that just by rotating the table there must always be a position where the table will be perfectly balanced. He wrote a paper on it to prove the solution mathematically. No need to fold napkins anymore. :)

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