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I am sorry, due to some connex problems i saw my post listed twice on final check. So I deleted duplicated.

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barmar, on Dec 4 2008, 08:14 AM, said:

If you truly are superior in some way, it's not unreasonable to be proud.  E.g. Olympic medalists don't have to be humble.

What's considered a negative trait is being rude or overbearing about it, rubbing it in other people's faces.  "Nyah, nyah, I won the Spingold and you didn't!"  And if you don't even deserve it, that's pomposity.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light.

The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesised Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, it lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

In particle physics, the Higgs boson is a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model.

The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, was theorized in 1964 by François Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire"); in October of the same year by Peter Higgs, working from the ideas of Philip Anderson; and independently by Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble, who worked out the results by the spring of 1963. The three papers written on this discovery by Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble, Higgs, Brout, and Englert were each recognized as milestone papers during Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration. Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam were the first to apply the Higgs mechanism to the electroweak symmetry breaking. The electroweak theory predicts a neutral particle whose mass is not far from that of the W and Z bosons.

On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time. On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. The LHC will not be operational again until summer 2009.

The LHC was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008, in the presence of political leaders, science ministers from CERN's 20 Member States, CERN officials, and members of the worldwide scientific community.

So do you really think those people have time to boast ? In my opinion not. Because it never helps to fix problems they see after 14 years and $10 billion. They might be only very busy with scientifically experimenting about the unknown universe.

[han]

Well that may all be true but last summer I was sitting in a bar in Italy with a guy who works at CERN and he kept going on about how they had the largest accelerator and the smartest particle phycisists and Higgs this and proton that, he was quite annoying to be honest.

[y66]

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Are there a single word in English explains "exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner" ?

prom-queen-esque