I'm short on it eventually being called the Higgs Stephen - especially as that job is in the hands of a committee. I'm never comfortable with this 'giving mass to stuff' thingy' - though suspect this is a refusal to let go of my tendency to intrinsic billiard ball thinking. I'm more a Ken Higgs man - he was a stout Lancastrian almost-fast bowler who played the support role with John Snow in England's pace attack. They once put on 174 for the last wicket against the West Indies - which sort of resembles the Alamo as a rearguard action. Te forces on a cricket or baseball swing are difficult enough for me. These days the ones causing pain in my elbow are more important! Maybe parts of the universe equation have a form of rheumatism? Being able to create a particularly sticky Higgs field when the opposition are batting would be good - or maybe a plasma shine on the ball to let it slip through at light speed. They are doing some of the latter on aircraft skins - bringing the almost dragless flying wing closer to being (tail fin replaced by 'electrodes').
On Mar 18, 2:50 pm, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > himhttp://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-... > > > -- > > 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.
