The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special

[offendi]

A good watch , Jim Alcholililililiy as good as ever and remarakebly upto date for tv

[ewenm]

I enjoyed it too although missed the first 20 mins or so. Might get it again on iPlayer.

[Pobolycwm]

I was a bit disappointed with it, too many physicists trying to be quirky and nobody able to really bring the " quest " alive , I was left feeling the Higgs Bosun will be found soon more by elimination than anything else, I guess that's the way with science nowadays. I liked the quote about " There be dragons" before the Big Bang.......where's all the dragon hunters ?

[LordGrover]

Except for the bosun/boson thing I'm with our Welsh chum.
Horizon has dumbed down far too much, even for me and I'm no boffin.

[K12beano]

So who nicked all the antimatter?

[callyman]

K12beano said:

So who nicked all the antimatter?

Here's a good read
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16780-antima...

[offendi]

Pobolycwm said:

I was a bit disappointed with it, too many physicists trying to be quirky and nobody able to really bring the " quest " alive , I was left feeling the Higgs Bosun will be found soon more by elimination than anything else, I guess that's the way with science nowadays. I liked the quote about " There be dragons" before the Big Bang.......where's all the dragon hunters ?

cou - pleb - gh!

[Pobolycwm]

offendi said:

Pobolycwm said:

I was a bit disappointed with it, too many physicists trying to be quirky and nobody able to really bring the " quest " alive , I was left feeling the Higgs Bosun will be found soon more by elimination than anything else, I guess that's the way with science nowadays. I liked the quote about " There be dragons" before the Big Bang.......where's all the dragon hunters ?

cou - pleb - gh!

None taken, despite your name

[offendi]

Pobolycwm said:

offendi said:

Pobolycwm said:

I was a bit disappointed with it, too many physicists trying to be quirky and nobody able to really bring the " quest " alive , I was left feeling the Higgs Bosun will be found soon more by elimination than anything else, I guess that's the way with science nowadays. I liked the quote about " There be dragons" before the Big Bang.......where's all the dragon hunters ?

cou - pleb - gh!

None taken, despite your name

shame really the offence was intended , the subject was some cutting edge science and your contribution was "physicists trying to be quirky " and " I guess that's the way with science nowadays"

Admittadly pleb was the bare minimum derisiioin i could give and maybe Mail reader or Kyle viewer would have more approriate

[hairykrishna]

Pobolycwm said:

I was a bit disappointed with it, too many physicists trying to be quirky and nobody able to really bring the " quest " alive , I was left feeling the Higgs Bosun will be found soon more by elimination than anything else, I guess that's the way with science nowadays. I liked the quote about " There be dragons" before the Big Bang.......where's all the dragon hunters ?

That's how particle physics is done. Hundreds or even thousands of people crunching statistics on enormous datasets. Shame it doesn't fit with your romantic view of science but if we want to find new particles and expand our fundamental theories that's how it has to be.

[RizzoTheRat]

Watched this on iplayer last night. Definitely less dumbed down than most tv science programs these days and a refreshing change to have something about science without Brian Cox on a mountain top telling us its amazing.