Yes, but...that drains power and is overly complicated. Too expensive = no sales = no more production.

From the pixels?

To quote a very relevant line from Firefly: "I see HOW they did it, I just don't see WHY." It had to do with levitating chandeliers.

Yes, it is huge. And I don't know how many countries' sites Giz has. I only use the US one. I just remember when the UK one first started and we lost the great Kat Hannaford to it :( . I miss her; I really should check out Giz UK sometime.

It would...if I didn't die in a massive, fiery explosion after my first joyride.

Is that a countable or uncountable infinity?

All scientists are commies then, sir. Let's remove them all from the country and make us all smarterer like the gashderned priests.

Of course it does. Gizmodo is based in America. I bet the Gizmodo UK site doesn't have any articles about Independence Day, except maybe as side-mentions.

One terrible idea down, infinity more to go.

Useful and important are two different things. Not to mention that more often than not, purely scientific discoveries end up leading to highly useful practical applications (cf. the understanding of the human eye to movies).

My dreams of an Alcubierre drive were recently shattered when I learned the major problems of them (assuming we could build one). Turns out, when it stops moving, there's a huge blast of particles and antiparticles that would essentially destroy a huge radius around your stopping point. This happens EVERY time you…

Is that important or relevant to the discovery somehow?

It won't. Near-light-speed travel, yes, though. Inertial dampeners would manipulate and/or avoid the Higgs field interactions, lowering the mass of the ship and its contents, making a small amount of fuel accelerate it greatly with minor forces. Efficiency FTW :) .

Never full anti-gravity. For that, you'd need to reduce your mass to 0, at which point every atom in your body would no longer hold together and would be moving at the speed of light, making you one giant decoherent mess of radiation. That would be painful probably and lethal definitely.

As far as I know, the existence of the Higgs boson doesn't really affect what validity String Theories have...

If we can figure out how to manipulate and/or avoid the Higgs field to any significant extent, one practical application is an inertial dampener. Which means much more fuel-efficient vehicles of all kinds, bringing high-speed, low-cost space travel into the realms of reality.

Now we spend time figuring out how it works so we can figure out how to manipulate the Higgs field. Inertial dampeners, here we come! :D

Not all bosons are unstable. Photons are bosons, and other than virtual photons, those things last. I think you meant "AAAAANNNNDDDDD IT'S GONE!! (cause it's unstable)".