Is The Higgs Boson Particle Catholic?

[Zacs-Master]

It must be. How else would they have mass.

[normchurch]

i have yet to understand, even partially, just what this weird particle is and why eggheads are so excited about it.

[jake-the-peg]

That's probably because rather asking and listening you refer to people who do understand it as 'eggheads'

[jim360]

Norm -- ask away, and I'll try my best to answer.

[jake-the-peg]

When the LHC was started the then Science Minister William Waldegrave offered a prize of a crate of champagne for someone who could describe 'What is the Higgs boson and why do we want to find it?' on a side of A4 that could be understood by a prime minister.

Ths was the winning entry

http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~djm/higgsa.html

[jim360]

In my opinion that's a crap explanation. On second thoughts maybe I shouldn't have said that as I am now obliged to come up with a better one.

[Old_Geezer]

The prime minister understood it ?!?

[RATTER15]

I'm clearly not a prime minister.

[Zacs-Master]

You've all taken this far too seriously. Incidentally - about to be discussed on Radio 2.