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Plane

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Hello Higgs
« on: July 02, 2012, 10:07:18 PM »

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Re: Hello Higgs
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 11:49:02 AM »
A physicist saw an enigma

    And called to his mum "Flying pig, ma!"

    She said "Flying pigs?

    Next thing you'll see the Higgs!"

    He said "Nah, not until it's five sigma!"

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Give a name to a speck, call it God
Historically, not really that odd
Our machine gave us something
To justify funding
That'll do 'til the wonders anon
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I once met a Boson called Higgs,
Whose mass was appallingly big.
"While I'm trying to hide,
folks are so quick to deride.
They keep saying I'm as big as a pig."
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There once was a physicist named Roo,
yes, her first name was Kanga, you knew?
She jumped through hoops,
to collide protons in loops,
to see what would emerge from the goo.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: Hello Higgs
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 07:16:19 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18708626


Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'

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Re: Hello Higgs
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2012, 03:16:12 PM »


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http://www.thehindu.com/

Although Pakistan’s then-president, Gen. Zia ul-Haq, presented Salam with Pakistan’s highest civilian honor after he won the Nobel Prize, the general response in the country was muted. The physicist was celebrated more enthusiastically by other nations, including India.

Despite his achievements, Salam’s name appears in few textbooks and is rarely mentioned by Pakistani leaders or the media. Officials at Quaid-i-Azam University had to cancel plans for Salam to lecture about his Nobel-winning theory when Islamist student activists threatened to break the physicist’s legs, said his colleague Hoodbhoy.

 
For Salam, not even death saved him from being targeted.

Hoodbhoy said his body was returned to Pakistan in 1996 after he died in Oxford, England, and was buried under a gravestone that read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate." A local magistrate ordered that the word "Muslim" be erased.


http://asiancorrespondent.com/85566/pakistan-shuns-physicist-linked-to-god-particle/

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Re: Hello Higgs
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 10:59:13 PM »
The Pakis tend to join the bureaucracy they learned from the British with the fanaticism they learned from the Arabs.

It would sem that if Allah ot God sends prophets, he should do so on a regular basis, just as the formula of Coca-Cola has changed over the years.

Prophets can easily go out of style with changes in technology and lifestyle of a culture. God-Allah should know that, as he knows everything-.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."