Who Killed America's Biggest Gadget?

The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its energy field. But the LHC didn't do it alone. The search has been a massive, costly and unprecedented international effort that began thousands of miles away, at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie. read more at: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/25/motherboard-tv-a-death-on-the-frontier--4 Special thanks to Funky 49. "Particle Business" can be viewed in its entirety here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaG6umMkbxg And more about Funky 49 here: http://funky49.bandcamp.com/

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1. And here we are in 2017 with a president who plans on more budget cuts to education and science so that he can fund his tax cuts that favor the other one-percenters like himself, all while normalizing the view that global climate change is a hoax.
   Yeah, 'Murica
2. fucking globalists fucked America and the world. zionists are behind all that is fucked up in this world.
3. hail cheesus
4. Bush 1 killed it, you dork. He’s from Texas, so he put Super Collider there and fire ants ate it faster than they could build it. It’s that simple. The final decision was between Mich and Texas and while Texas is one giant fire ant hill Mich has no fire ants. The fire ants ate up the budgeted money while the scientific community had neither the political will nor muscle to pull out of Texas and put it in the alternate site (the ants were attracted by the electromagnetic fields around the wires and ate the wire’s insulation). The search was forced thousands of miles away to another atom smasher where the scientific community had both the political will and muscle to put a new smaller version in a new alternate site. The problem is loosing Super Collider - and with it loosing the cutting edge.
5. trump hates scientists
6. Obama, Deep State etc. decided to spend Billions on Psychiatry to make Americans cognitively impaired. Roche, Novartis, GAVI, taking billions of US tax dollars... located in the same place as Cern, Switzerland? Conspiracy ?
7. Were da deer and da nerds play were Seldom is heard a stupid rap song and the buffalo wish they were befflooooo🐂 moo!
8. What is the name of the star wars film that Fermi lab guy made. It looks Birdemic great.
9. This is heartbreaking and just another example of the dumbing down of America. A bunch of stinking old farts in Congress with absolutely no future vision or understanding of the value of science whatsoever. Very Sad.
10. USA USA USA...USA number 37!
11. Crazy russian hacker
12. American bison (Bison bison)
13. Oh gawd, that rap was so lame xD
14. Wow this pissed me off so badly for some reason.
15. and now where here where essentially we are walking backwards in the united states
16. where is the higgs at? its everywhere.
17. all of this shit is based off the assumption that the universe started at some point. it's quite obvious that the universe has always existed, and has no edges that are 13 billion light years away. because there can't be an edge, as if you were to travel to the edge, you wouldn't just get stopped by an invisible wall, you'd keep going. so it's not the edge.
    they say it's impossible for the universe to always have existed, it's impossible for the univers to be infinite as there's no such thing as infinity, it's just a concept, an abstraction, yet then the official explanation for the origin of the universe, is that it all popped out from an INFINITELY small point. just think about it, no, of COURSE everything didn't just pop out from an infintely small points and expand to 13 billion light years. As there's 2 obvious contradictions, the first one.. how did that infintely small point get there with all that mass and energy inside it. Where did the mass and enery come from, and then if it has a finite size, then what happens if you get to the furthest point and keep going... there's no wall or anything to stop you, therefor it's a paradox, the fact that if you can keep going past the limits of something, then those aren't the limits are they.
    all this shit has been invented by people, because we're literally just not smart enough to understand something that never began. out minds won't let us believe that something never had a beginning. Everything has to have a beginning and end to us, as everything we see in nature has a finite begining and end. But like everything in nature, it doesn't just pop into existance from nothing, there's a cause of things that begin and end. something causes things to become to exist in our world, so we have to apply that same example to the universe, as we don't have the capacity to understand something not having a begining, or an end. am i the only person who knows this?
    again, the universe DIDN'T come from an infinitely small points. Because there was nothing to cause it, there was nothing to create it, and there was no way of any of this around us to become to exist out of literally nothing. They're claming that even though this pint everything came from was "Inifinitely small" it still managed to yeild all the energy and mass in the universe lol. No, no you can't fit all the energy in mass in the univsers in an infinitely small points. As A: infinitely small means it's doesn't exist, and B: there is LITERALLY not other example in nature of ANYTHING of colossal galaxies or above size being stored inside a tiny dot. So please please please stop this bullshit.
    
    It's obvious now that we aren't smart enough to be talking about this stuff. As everything couldn't have come from nothing, and if you say it didn't, it came from the big bang, then the big bang particle had to have come to exist and come from somewhere, therefor, there was something before the big bang, to make the big bang happen and yield everything we see. it didn't all suddnely, uncaused and from nothing create itself out of thin air. it just didn't.
    
    And stop saying how big the universe is, as the simple test for it is, if you tavel to the edge of it, and keep going, you won't be stopped by something, meaning it's not the edge. There can't be a furthest point in the universe, as there#s nothing to stop you from keeping on going. it's literally, and figuratively impossible for the universe to have a size. again, as like in nature, everyhting has a limit, an edge, a size, we have to try to apply the same bullshit to the universe as we can't fathom something not having a size. But we know deep down, that the universe can't be a certain size, as whats outside of that? something else obviously. There can't be an edge to it. There's just can't, it's nonsense. if you think about if just for 30 seconds you'll come to the same conclusion as me. how do you spend 9 billion on that loop lol have a feeling alot of the people involved with that lhc project got some pretty impressive bonuses outta that 9 billion
18. no one won the cold war. the ussr broke up. there was no actual war to win. it was just people being catious of eachother
19. All this take the lead shit over economical borders and shit.. If humans weren't trash we could live without borders and come together on science and probably make the world as great as we want it to be?
20. Fast forward to 4:55 for The answer