Hi stephen,......Science has always fascinated me... I really enjoyed High school Physics... did well at it... but didn't pursue it further in college ....I also had at least one good "Physicist" graduate level friend.... and others in other science disciplines... I like to try to get them to explain these "things" to me as "factually" as possible... stripping away as much of the hard math and theory stuff as possible.... works in with my "nominalist" approach preference, too.... Conceptus / Res... Concept / Reference.... Idea / Physical thing.... Motivation / Action (not Cause and effect) for human affairs.... As for Mr. Higgs.... I don't know that much about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs or his co-scientists who did the actual "theorizing".....but this gets back to that other discussion we had about "entrepreneurs".....point being.... these guys (and gals) hardly did their research for the money in it.....and all new developments stem from folks like them...... Nobel Prizes all around.... the least the rest of us can do.....
On Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:29:11 PM UTC-4, stephenk wrote: > > > On 3/17/2013 2:05 PM, 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... > > > Hey Nom, > > ��� Exactly speaking, Higg's theory has not been proven... It only > seems to have survived falsification. No physical theory can ever be proven > unless we somehow acquire the capacity to simulate every possible universe > like ours. As such is what would be required to "prove" all of the > implications of the theory (modulo variations in initial and boundary > conditions). > > > > 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 >> > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > -- 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.
