Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jul 23 2012, 05:28 AM) The bloke who coined the stupid term "god particle" has a lot to answer for. It was a publicity stunt to make his book sell better btw.
I agree but one of the reasons our big particle accelerator in Texas lost funding is because some congress dude asked "will it find god?" and the physicists decided to answer honestly... it would find the higgs boson.
Boom, bye bye funding! We need more scientists or at least scientifically literate people in the government.
MonAG wrote:QUOTE (MonAG @ Jul 23 2012, 07:08 PM) Yeah, Scientocracy they call it... Truth is, I suspect we would probably be better off ruled by hippies, than by scientists...
fuzzylunkin1 wrote:QUOTE (fuzzylunkin1 @ Jul 23 2012, 08:43 PM) I agree but one of the reasons our big particle accelerator in Texas lost funding is because some congress dude asked "will it find god?" and the physicists decided to answer honestly... it would find the higgs boson.
Boom, bye bye funding! We need more scientists or at least scientifically literate people in the government.
"We will soon find god's bosom"
<bp|> Maybe when I grow up I can be a troll like PsycH <bp|> or an obsessive compulsive paladin of law like Adept
fuzzylunkin1 wrote:QUOTE (fuzzylunkin1 @ Jul 23 2012, 06:43 PM) I agree but one of the reasons our big particle accelerator in Texas lost funding is because some congress dude asked "will it find god?" and the physicists decided to answer honestly... it would find the higgs boson.
Boom, bye bye funding! We need more scientists or at least scientifically literate people in the government.
The correct answer is "Give us some more money and we'll see". When all the experiments are over and god hasn't been found, just say that god probably isn't a particle, may be a wave instead. Need more money to investigate waves...
