I'm sure many of you will have heard this already but I do claim the privilege of hearing the joke when at a Christmas party where a relative of mine was present who does actually work at CERN.
A Higgs Boson particle walks into a Catholic Church. So the priest comes up to him and says "Oi you! Higgs Boson! You can't come in 'ere."
So the Higgs Boson particle says, "Without me you can't have any mass."
Incidentally, as I understand the explanation given to me, the people at CERN haven't discovered the Higgs Boson particle, they have found various places where it doesn't exist, thus narrowing down the possibilities for places where it does, and making it more likely that they will find it in the end. But I am sure that is an over-simplification.
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Although I am only a laymen in the field Father I'm pretty sure that scientists at CERN are pretty close to discovering God
One of my old jokes from my days as a science teacher. The definition of the three branches of science:
If it smells, it's Chemistry
If it moves, it's Biology
If it doesn't work, it's Physics!
I have a sweatshirt that says:
Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic!
It's fun to be a Catholic physicist....
The only other physics joke I know has Werner Heisenberg being stopped at a speed trap. Policeman asks him, "Do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg responds, "No, but I know where I am!"
Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Higgsiano bosoni ecclesiam catholicam ingredienti, "Heus tu, boson Higgsiane", inquit parochus, "Huc tibi intrare non licet". Cui ille: "Absque me, massam habere non potes".
Your understanding is the same as mine on the finding of the particle. I do find it a fascinating point into the faith of scientists in their theory. Common sense would dictate that the longer you continued to search for a hypothetical object and were not able to find it the greater the probability that the object does not in fact exist.
The Cat in the Hat explains it this way:
When you've mislaid a certain something, keep your cool and don't get hot. Calculatus Eliminatus is the best friend that you've got. Calculatus Eliminatus always helps an awful lot. The way to find a missing something is to find out where it's not.
Happy New Year Father
Lol that is a bit like
Him: "I've lost my glasses, have you seen them?"
Her: " no, but I know where they arn't.
heh. borrowed for my blog.
How about this version
The Higgs Boson particle says to the priest, "Without me you can't have any Mass.”
The priest comes up to him and says "Oi you! Higgs Boson! You can't come in 'ere."
A Higgs Boson particle walks into a Catholic Church.
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