"A Closer Look at the Higgs Boson"

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Wow! This is really exciting! I can't wait to see how this turns out!

"A Closer Look at the Higgs Boson" - ABC News

Just hope no one figures out how to dissolve them.

Dissolving might be useful, we might be able to walk through walls

What if others were able to walk through you? What if they could annihilate you with this new technology? You would just dissolve into thin air. Whole galaxies could disappear. This discovery could lead to much destruction. It could be an entire new division of warfare. Higgs Warfare.

Isn't that what hydrofluoric acid is for?
In all seriousness, you highlight a serious issue here. If we all get dissolved, it certainaly would speed up the spped at which wars are fought and won...and the rate we are all extinct.

Precision manipulation of mass and therefore the curvature of space time, here we come

Here comes wormholes and time travel

Instant vaporization then.

That could be a new way to lose weight. But the downside would be that if you over-did it then all the atoms in your body would explode at the speed of light. And that could be bad.

If it does indeed turn out to be the elusive Higgs boson, I'm going to have a Higgs party with my fellow geek friends complete with cake and booze (for them).

The scientists involved say there is no practical application for this discovery. It just satisfies their curiosity. Seems like a lot of money and effort just to be able to say, "Huh, that's interesting."
Anyone have a conspiracy theory? Who funded this research, and what is their REAL motivation, eh?

There could be solid implications for this discovery. A whole new branch of science could evolve from it. Ways to manipulate matter and such by messing with that boson. Why not? All we need is one genuis to come along and figure out how.

Newton worked out orbital mechanics 300 years before it had any practical application. At the time, his work must have seemed utterly useless. Admittedly, his research was a lot cheaper, though.

So, there may be a practical application of particle physics someday, though it's not likely to be any time soon.

Oh, I expect much the same sort of thing was said when the electron was described. You know - "electron" as in: "electronics".
Who would've thought that waste of time and money would ever turn out to be useful, eh?
/sarc

It's really quite ridiculously simple: if no-one asks "why?" then nothing moves forward: discovery stops.

Since the higgs lasts for micro seconds... I don't think we have much to worry about

Our molecules are bound together by the electric forces, not gravitational forces. Mass has nothing to do with how we are stuck together.