“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, August 27, 2011

Standard Model of QT in Trouble

...as I predicted a few months ago, the search for the Higgs boson is as yet fruitless. The Higgs is suggested to give other particles mass. It's hard to find, it is claimed, because the universe is pretty much a gigantic smooth Higgs field.

Where have we heard this sort of thing before? Anyone remember the ether, which Einstein finally killed?

So CERN and ATLAS haven't found anything yet. The slight data spike noted a couple of months ago turns out to be less significant than once thought.

I'll explain why I'm betting on the nonexistence of the Higgs in a while.



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