The Future is not that far in Japanese culture, In fact look of all the awesome Robot's that they built over the years ever since 1996 the year the I was born!
Along with Tiga, Carranger, and Resident Evil!
Take care and watch out for Terminators!
Max
over 12 years ago
Trust me, you don't want teleporters.
Why?
because it's basically a fax machine.
It sends a copy of you to your destination, and shreds you into base matter, so that a copy of someone else will be able to arrive at the teleporter you came from.
A teleporter shredding failed in star trek once
Andrew Hall
over 12 years ago
Phasers and teleporters, ha! What we will get is soaked to build even bigger tunnels to shoot even smaller bits of matter at each other. Physics stopped caring about inventions some time ago.
Igor
over 12 years ago
Tiger saying it how it is. And I am not trolling you really don't know what you are talking about. Seriously. Did you even study physics?
Tiger
over 12 years ago
HEY LOOK GUYS, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT ACTING LIKE THEY DO. WHAT A SURPRISE.
Talcon
over 12 years ago
WHERE'S THE JOKE BUCKLEY YOU SAID THERE'D BE A JOKE?!
Poptart
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145361]@Iki[/url]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI6mPDCqEo
You're being trolled, stop replying to Igor.
Iki
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145358]@Igor[/url]: Fine. Quantum Mechanics textbook saying *exactly the same thing*.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JINBouBmkoC&lpg=PA19&dq=photon%20momentum%20rest%20mass&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=photon%20momentum%20rest%20mass&f=false
Xel Unknown
over 12 years ago
It's what makes up the Universe and it looks like the FSM
Igor
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145346]@Iki[/url]: I'm sorry, but I don't waste time explaining stuff to kids on comments of a Webcomic altough I will tell you two things: 1: Wikipedia. Lol. 2: Re-read what you have written and if you can't find your mistake you have a problem.
Jay
over 12 years ago
Jo broke my sarcasm detector...
Iki
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145313]@Igor[/url]: Oh yes, I'm sure toying with basic arithmetic largely taken from Wikipedia is extremely dangerous. If you have issues with what I've written, detail at least one of them. Otherwise, get off your implied knowledge pedestal.
pizzaman
over 12 years ago
In some news relevant to people who are alive today, some Scottish nutritionist(s) made a pizza you could eat every day and not flop over dead in two years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18663969
Not a scientist
over 12 years ago
ITT: Science at a high level
Brief
over 12 years ago
@A Troll
It's not really that kind of thing. It just verified a standard model, so now new theories can be built on it. Can't make mass effect bombs with it like some people think.
A Troll
over 12 years ago
Which leads to the other part of the conversation, the whole 'weaponizing this thing', blame Humanity, not a specific country people. Because if one country cannot do it, another WILL. End of discussion.
A Troll
over 12 years ago
Meh. New laws of physics get discovered every so often. Saying we discovered something new period is like saying we discovered a new, cool looking rock;
It might change how we think about other things, but there will ALWAYS be something new to discover.
Anon
over 12 years ago
Well...I guess all we can do now is put it in a bomb and start an underground civilization based around the worship of Higgs Boson, the God Particle.
chemio
over 12 years ago
so basically i'm not saying it was aliens..... but it was aliens....
YGUb
over 12 years ago
Oh yes I am so furious I trashed my home, got evicted, and I'm typing this from my new dumspter next to my new pet rat and some rabid hobo chewing my leg.
Good night.
No seriously.
Igor
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145311]@Iki[/url]: I don't even know where to start explaining how you're wrong.... kids shouldn't toy with things they don't understand... stop now.
Tkun
over 12 years ago
@=|: He already did, even zerg-tan and other minor characters.
Iki
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145296]@Psycotic[/url]: From the Wikipedia page on Momentum:
"The total energy E of a body is related to the relativistic momentum p by:
E^2 = (p*c)^2 + (m*c^2)^2
"
so if a particle has no mass, it's just E = p*c
This is one of the facets of special relativity.
kriss1989
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145309]@DYWYPI[/url]: Unfortunately yeah, teleporters and quite possibly faster than light travel are now confirmed to be impossible.
DYWYPI
over 12 years ago
It actually makes them way less likely. If we hadn't found it, our current model for the universe (that predicts the boson in the first place) would have to be thrown out, potentially in favor of one that would allow more interesting SCIENCE!. As it is, we're just left twiddling our thumbs.
Picker of Nits
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145297]@YGUb[/url]: Both of those things have been fixed since he pointed them out. You must be furious.
=|
over 12 years ago
Whoever Higgs is, I hope Jo makes Rule 34 of her Bosom
MeowMix
over 12 years ago
SCIENCE ALL UP IN THIS BITCH!
interestedBystander
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145296]@Psycotic[/url] : For material object, maybe.
When dealing with high-level physic, definition tends to get messy. Especially with light. I wouldn't be surprised if physicist (is that it?) had a broader definition for momentum.
btw, I always got it as momentum being "directional kinetic energy".
interestedBystander
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145299]@Salem5[/url] : I am an ingineer, of the nerdy kind (computer/electrical engineering), and I think I'm on the nerdier side of things even where I am. And I can tell you I don't understand it either.
I had honestly forgotten why was higgss' so special.
Tue
over 12 years ago
Tbh. when I read about it I were more thinking in dimension twins and portal stuff.
Derp
over 12 years ago
:D they returned!
Salem5
over 12 years ago
Marvelous!
She is an engineer though, right?
YGUb
over 12 years ago
@Constructive Criticism: You are a fucktard
Everything in this comic is intentional.
Please go back to playmobil.
Psycotic
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145284]@Iki[/url]: Being that Momentum is related to an objects Mass and Velocity, I might have an issue with that statement.
It may have a similar concept of energy, but if you are saying a Photon has no mass, then it, by definition, has no momentum.
Constructive Criticism
over 12 years ago
You are missing a word in the second panel: "after all these (years)"
In the third panel, the position of the chat bubbles makes the viewer read the chat bubbles out of order. Consider repositioning them.
Edward Lollington
over 12 years ago
awesome, now all we need is to build these retardedly expensive tunnels everywhere so we can shoot single atoms at each other with about $12000 worth of electricity to use them for...what exactly?
Vulpis
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145283]@interestedBystander[/url] Now theres an interesting thought. We always tend to think of a 'wave' as a 2-dimensional construct--what if it's more than 2? And we know that high-end gravity and distortion of space-time go hand in hand...what if *all* forces are actually multidimentional vibrations?
Llort
over 12 years ago
More like Higgs bosoM amirite
Dr.JohnSmith
over 12 years ago
Do you know where this will lead? Well I do, better get rid of it before you get aliens trying to stop you from making the next leap and becoming competition in some sort of space....thing, giant talking heads and a huge underground facility run by an evil AI with a fetish for neurotoxin.
Dt
over 12 years ago
And laser pistols!
Potorark
over 12 years ago
ITT: people discussing things they don't understand
go back to wow kids.
Iki
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145283]@interestedBystander[/url]: Photons don't have mass, but they do have momentum. When the sail absorbs or reflects the photon, it gains that momentum or double that momentum respectively, which is proportional to the energy of the photon. ( p = E/c )
interestedBystander
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145272]@Demon[/url] (again) : Another way to see the solar sail problem.
Photons have to mass to push the sail. But they have energy that they give to the sail. From there, I'm not sure where the movement comes from.
It might be the sail getting electrically charged and pushed by some magnetic phenomenon
Nicolas
over 12 years ago
Teleporter goin' up !
Houyin Kyouma
over 12 years ago
El Psy Congroo
Anon
over 12 years ago
Your ignorance is amusing.
someoneanon
over 12 years ago
After all these... what?
Artificer
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145254]@kriss1989[/url]: Sadly, the US did, however, invent modern warfare in general, the atomic bomb, the death camp, and conducted inhuman medical experiments so vile that the Nazis used them as an excuse during the Nuremberg trials, demanding to know why it was acceptable for the US to do worse things.
Marc
over 12 years ago
mass effect.
interestedBystander
over 12 years ago
About the sails : they don't push the sail, I think it's more like it gives energy to the sail directly at the atomic level. And the movement comes from the changes of the atoms. Basically inside the matter of the sail
[url=#user_comment_145272]@Demon[/url], that's the catch. They have no MASS, but they hold energy. The way I understand it, photons are like waves on water, the wave has no being, but you see it because it distords water.
Accept photon "distords" ambiant electromagnetic field.
Demon
over 12 years ago
Wait, photons have no Mass? Despite being able to move things. I heard the Solar sail was propelled by Photons, something that would suggest that Photons do have mass (where else does the momentum come from).
Isn't it theorized that Black Holes bend light with it's gravitational force?
Olavo
over 12 years ago
CERN? OPEN THE STEINS; GATE.
"WWWHHHEEEeeeeee...." Said the accelerated particle
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145267]@Q[/url]: Because Gravity from large objects bends space-time like a bitch.
"WWWHHHEEEeeeeee...." Said the accelerated particle
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Probably not. Gravity, compared to electromagnetism, is really weak. Most nuclei are held by the Strong Nuclear Force, not gravity.
As to the HB - it's simply what lets particles interact with the Higgs Field and gain mass. Matter doesn't innately have mass.
Regal
over 12 years ago
All this time it was just sitting there in the broom closet. No one bothered to look before. Silly scientists.
Q
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145265]@Aesir_blade[/url]: But if photons are not affected by gravity, how does gravitational lensing work?
Chessrook44
over 12 years ago
If it IS the Higgs Boson, two questions now remain...
One: How do we remove it?
Two: What happens if we remove it?
I already know the answer to two though, and the answer is NOTHING GOOD.
Aesir_blade
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Photons, for example, have no mass; they therefore create no gravitational field and are not affected by them.
Aesir_blade
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]: Mass is actually not (stuff).
Mass is either inertial mass (resistance of a body to acceleration by forces) or gravitational mass (creates and creates force from gravitational fields); however, these values are the same.
Xenosphobatic
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145262]@Demon[/url]:
They've been looking for the subatomic particle that actually gives atoms mass. We all know they HAVE mass, but we haven't known WHY.
With this knowledge, the combined theory of Physics is possible, among other things.
Demon
over 12 years ago
Wait... if something exists with no mass... no, it doesn't even make sense, as things that exists are still made of something. Last time I checked Matter was Mass (Mass being a measure of Matter), and Matter is things that exists. Which means no matter what you do, things will still have Mass.
Shadow12000
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145236]@Nuckel[/url]: If you're like 80 years old right now then yeah...our technological and scientific breakthroughs in the last 10 years equates to the entire 1900's, no idea why you think it wont take maybe 10 or 20 years before this is actually used in something.
thavleifrim
over 12 years ago
higgs boson is basically the reason we have mass, without it we would all be weightless and be travelling at the speed of light, which would tear us apart at a molecular level. not to be confused with gravity, gravity is caused by mass and mass is caused by higgs boson.
Demon
over 12 years ago
Wait... lowering the mass... wouldn't that make the distance between the ions greater in the atoms?
Isn't gravity what keeps atoms together?
Wouldn't removing the Higgs-Boson particle would effectively kill things, splitting creatures into ions, never to be reassembled again?
Nando Rock
over 12 years ago
Well, i have lot of fun whit the Fis teacher of my School hehehehe
Templar for SCIENCE
over 12 years ago
DO YOU SEE THAT HIGGS BOSON OVER THERE?
Willys
over 12 years ago
So all they need to do - provided it's been the Higgs-Boson particle - that they develop a HB reflecting field. AAaaaand anti-gravity :-)
kriss1989
over 12 years ago
@Some dude: HEY! We're not the ones who invented landmines, mustard gas, or tanks. Nor was it us who first weaponized dynamite (a construction tool) or Molotov cocktails (weaponized booze), that was Europe. Hell, American invented vaccines were the basis for germ warfare weapons...in Europe.
Phillammon
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145250]@Censuur[/url]: This is true. However, this is the first time they've released a discovery that managed to be outside of 5 S.D.
The only previous "false" discovery you can be referring to was the neutrinos from a preliminary test that was overhyped by the media.
Fun Fact
over 12 years ago
The "God Particle" name is actually a shorthand form of "[that] GOD DAMNED PARTICLE!"
DeBaroness
over 12 years ago
Yes, but now that we control the elemental partical of mass.... breasts can be as large as we like, without back aches and sagging!
Or at least, that's what my immediate reaction was.
Censuur
over 12 years ago
Lets be honest here, cern has been a massive waste of money in terms of practical output, and most of the things they "discover" are found to be inaccurate later, the main issue being that the research at cern isn't subjected to peer reviews, humanity only has one of them and thats not good enough
Some dude
over 12 years ago
@ON the Bright Side: Well, the research isn't in America, so I think it'll stay unweaponised for a bit longer.
ON the Bright Side
over 12 years ago
How long until it's weaponized?
Dook
over 12 years ago
"THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING"
Expect practical applications in 50 or so years. Back to work everyone...
That's Not a Particle Excellerator That's My Wife
over 12 years ago
I had a near identical conversation with my girlfriend, she would sympathize with the Orange Engie.
While I may known nothing about particles I do know something about fanservice, dat outfit on Orange Engie.
/richboyface
Hedrah
over 12 years ago
http://u18chan.com/uploads/user/Higgs_u18chan.jpg
Nuckel
over 12 years ago
I guess none of us will live to see any of the fancy new technologies that might emerge from all this...
Mouse
over 12 years ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my girlfriend before this comic went up.
keradi01
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145223]@Knowitall[/url] Wait... If removing this particle can remove something's mass, then does that mean we can make things less heavy? Weight is based on mass, and with less mass, less effect from gravity. So we can make things less heavy. Like giant mecha that won't be crushed under their own weight?
Etalan
over 12 years ago
It to test the theory that energy do become matter. IO think the test is to crash two x cell together to from energy.
Sani
over 12 years ago
Duracell powered overlighttravel yeah!
jso
over 12 years ago
science rules
BILL BILL BILL BILL
Bartimaeus
over 12 years ago
To quote Star Trek:
"The wait is over."
Platypus
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_145212]@FunkyMonk[/url]: Dr. Pepperian?
I'll agree with this actually http://xkcd.com/955/
While cool, what I'd want to see for gaming is quantum entanglement and near 0 lag network communication regardless of physical distance.
Knowitall
over 12 years ago
The God Particle is going to open up entirelly new laws of physics, this can completely change the way we look at the universe. Understanding and being able to calculate mass in objects could theortically allow us to remove the mass of an object all together if we cut out the God Particle.
Kazmohdim
over 12 years ago
So what can we learn from something like the Higgs-Boson Particle?
Daretobecupid
over 12 years ago
Higgs-Boson Particle= the God particle= the theoretical particle that gives all matter mass. Pretty much one of science's Holy Grails. So yeah, if it IS the Higgs-Boson that they've found, awesome!
Keradi01
over 12 years ago
Hurray for science?
FunkyMonk
over 12 years ago
This is not the will of Stien's Gate
El. Psy. Congoroo.
Terak
over 12 years ago
Is that mean more hats for me?
kent
over 12 years ago
it's SCIENCE
Tkun
over 12 years ago
Yay?
Poptart
over 12 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dI6mPDCqEo
You're being trolled, just stop replying to Igor the fucktard.