In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:30:39 -0400: Hi, [snip] >https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/is-nature-unnatural/ > >"On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and >students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia >University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist >visiting from the Institute for Advanced Study in nearby Princeton, >N.J. With his dark, shoulder-length hair shoved behind his ears, >Arkani-Hamed laid out the dual, seemingly contradictory implications >of recent experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. > >The universe is inevitable, he declared. The universe is impossible. > >The spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012 confirmed a >nearly 50-year-old theory of how elementary particles acquire mass, >which enables them to form big structures such as galaxies and humans. >The fact that it was seen more or less where we expected to find it >is a triumph for experiment, its a triumph for theory, and its an >indication that physics works, Arkani-Hamed told the crowd. > >However, in order for the Higgs boson to make sense with the mass (or >equivalent energy) it was determined to have, the LHC needed to find a >swarm of other particles, too. None turned up."
Hmm. Do I smell an "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" in the wind? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
