Now.... see?..... I did not know that......"slow down" and "sticky substance".... metaphors.... I get.... Now.... if someone could explain it a bit more... scientifically.... for me... what force slows "what" and "what" sticks to "what"... etc. and don't forget the "how"... please....
http://www.businessinsider.com/branding-science-to-save-us-all-2013-3 *The “God particle”* The most recent example of applying branding to scientific research is the discovery of the Higgs boson, which has been labeled the “God particle” because its postulated existence is required to explain the creation of the universe<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268744/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=jRFQTIT3>from a scientific perspective. Most scientists hate the term<http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/tech/innovation/higgs-boson-god-particle/index.html>. In fact, the two who are credited with inventing it, Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi, claim it was used as a joke<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/15/174440162/the-man-who-coined-the-god-particle-explains-it-was-a-joke>. Even so, the media latched onto the term “God particle” to emphasize its importance and to make it easier for people to understand it. Without the branded label, The Higgs boson is not easy for the average person to understand. It is a particle that acts like a sticky substance, which causes sub atomic particles to slow down and stick together to form atoms that have mass. Back in July, Scientists at CERN in Geneva Switzerland announced that they discovered a subatomic particle they thought was the Higgs boson. After reviewing the data over the past 8 months, the scientists confirmed<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/higgs-boson-discovery-confirmed-cern-large-hadron-collider_n_2874975.html>their discovery. British physicist Peter Higgs theorized the existence of this particle in 1964 to help explain matter and mass. According to Dick Teresi, co-author of *The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?*<http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/0618711686>, six other scientists helped in its theorization, but Higgs is “the only major particle that the discoverer, or the theorist, named after himself.” Bosons are one of the two basic classes of subatomic particles that carry force and occupy the same quantum state and space no matter how many of them are present. French physicist Paul Dirac named bosons after the Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose who worked with Albert Einstein in defining what they are. In addition to the Higgs boson, other particles that exhibit this behavior include photons and gravitons Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/branding-science-to-save-us-all-2013-3#ixzz2Np0HeUMW On Sunday, March 17, 2013 2:05:46 PM UTC-4, nominal9 wrote: > > http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=781282 > > more on topic....I don't get the theory.... but am glad to hear that > Higgs is alive to see his theory proven... > > Still, the concept wasn't named until almost 50 years ago in 1964, when > Peter Higgs, the God particle's namesake, and a few other scientists first > started digging into the subject. Higgs himself is still alive today to see > his original prediction come to fruition. > > On Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:04:53 PM UTC-4, nominal9 wrote: >> >> Okay...... now what's the next step.......? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson >> >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/physicists-see-higgs-boson-in-new-particle-but-more-study-is-needed.html?_r=0 >> By DENNIS >> OVERBYE<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/dennis_overbye/index.html> >> Published: >> March 14, 2013 >> >> - Facebook >> - Twitter >> - Google+ >> - Save >> - E-mail >> - Share >> - >> Print<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/physicists-see-higgs-boson-in-new-particle-but-more-study-is-needed.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print> >> - Reprints >> - >> >> <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day&pos=Frame4A&sn2=72270860/53be7632&sn1=b5f6b105/c2fff475&camp=FSL2013_ArticleTools_120x60_1849315b_nyt5&ad=Stoker_NYT120x60_NowPlaying_March1&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Fstoker> >> >> Physicists at >> CERN<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/cern/index.html?inline=nyt-org>, >> >> the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said Thursday that the new >> particle discovered with enormous fanfare last summer definitely looks like >> a Higgs >> boson<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/higgs_boson/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>, >> >> the particle famously predicted by Peter Higgs and others to imbue >> elementary particles with mass. But they said they still needed more data >> to understand how it works and what it means for the universe. >> Special Section >> >> >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-boson-how-2-teams-of-rivals-at-CERN-searched-for-physics-most-elusive-particle.html> >> Chasing the >> Higgs<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-boson-how-2-teams-of-rivals-at-CERN-searched-for-physics-most-elusive-particle.html> >> >> >> How two armies of scientists closed in on physics’ most elusive particle. >> >> - Video: Collision >> Course<http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/03/04/science/100000002094542/higgs-boson-a-cern-collision-course.html> >> - Timeline: Higgs, From Theory to >> Reality<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/05/science/higgs-boson-timeline.html> >> >> [image: Science Twitter Logo.] <http://twitter.com/#%21/nytimesscience> >> Connect With Us on Social Media <http://twitter.com/#%21/nytimesscience> >> >> @nytimesscience <http://twitter.com/#%21/nytimesscience> on Twitter. >> >> - Science Reporters and Editors on >> Twitter<https://twitter.com/nytimesscience/sci-times-reporters-eds/members> >> >> Like the science desk on Facebook.<http://www.facebook.com/nytimesscience> >> >> “The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent,” >> Joe Incandela, a professor at the University of California, Santa >> Barbara<http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org>, >> >> and leader of one of the discovery teams, said in a statement released by >> CERN. “To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we >> still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is.” >> >> After rummaging through the data from some 2,000 trillion collisions of >> subatomic particles in the Large Hadron >> Collider<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/large_hadron_collider/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>— >> more than twice as much data as led to the original discovery — >> physicists meeting at a workshop in La Thuile, >> Italy<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/italy/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>, >> >> said that they still did not know if there was only one Higgs boson, as >> predicted by the Standard Model, the reigning theory in physics, or if the >> new particle was only the lightest of a whole set of Higgs bosons, a >> circumstance envisioned by some more advanced and speculative theories. >> >> The verdict will hinge on more detailed measurements of the particle’s >> properties, like its spin and how it decays relative to other particles. >> The Higgs boson is supposed to have no spin at all; it is the knuckleball >> of the subatomic world. >> >> CERN’s collider, just outside Geneva, is now down for two years of >> repairs, but its teams have stockpiled their unanalyzed data, and look >> forward to the prospect of more years of high-energy collisions starting in >> 2015. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
