Something Something Higgs Boson Yesterday Something
Full disclosure: I am a nerd, but I am in no way a science nerd. In fact, I managed to learn absolutely nothing during my year of high school chemistry — seriously, I didn’t understand what was being told to me on day one, and it never got any clearer. My point is that Science proved the existence of the Higgs Boson particle — well, a Higgs Boson-like particle, at least — which means that… well, I don’t know. I understand that it gives particles a gravitational charge, which sounds awesome, but I seriously have no idea what this means, so I’m just going to post the explanatory video I was still too dumb to understand above and just slink back to my den of shame and ignorance. (Via Gamma Squad)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.