Topic: The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet?

[sam]

If you're of the opinion that the Large Hadron Collider – which just became the most powerful supercollider ever built by humans on Monday – will ultimately triumph in its quest to find the Higgs boson, you might be able to make a few bucks. If you're wrong, well, you might lose a few, too. That's right, along with betting on the elections, Academy Awards, and the snowfall in New York, the discovery of the Higgs boson is a tradeable commodity.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/02/the-lhc-will-discover-the-higgs-wanna-bet/

[Rik]

I bet half of China has a bet on it.

[sam]

lol

[Clive]

There will be a lot of very happy people if it is discovered!   

[Sandra]

There will be a lot of religous people who wont be happy though Clive  

That reminds me, I was listening to the radio early this morning and they were interviewing that odius woman, Shirley Phelps Roper.
What a dangerous and nasty group of people she belongs to  

During the interview she was asked how old the earth was and she insisted that it was 6,000 years old as it says in the bible  

When asked why her god let so many young children die in the 3rd world countries she said it was because they and the people had sinned  

Listening to her made me thank god that I am an atheist  

[sam]

yeah the 6,000 years thing is just stupid... and I can't believe people fixate on that - look you have lost that battle shut up and move on, it just means the guy who wrote that part of the bible can't count.

[sam]

There will be a lot of very happy people if it is discovered!   

well there will be some happy theorists if it isn't...

[Clive]

yeah the 6,000 years thing is just stupid...

  

[Simon]

Isn't it the James Usher thing?  He's appeared in several On This Day...'s. 

[Clive]

The very same Simon.