Yep, you heard me right, folks. Got nothing against the Big Bad Boson, just the fluff which, in journalism, surrounds it, like a corona of virtual particles. But today’s op-ed by particle physicist (and gifted science writer) Steven Weinberg is unfailingly informative, sans dog nor pony:
Favorite line:
If the new particle is the Higgs boson, it would have to be like a knuckleball in baseball; unlike all other known elementary particles, it would have no spin.
For further quotations from the ever-quotable Prince of Physics, click here:
Strangely, the professor does not mention our own recent discovery, documented here for completeness (“WDJ -- the Blog of Record”):
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/07/doctor-justice-discovers-higgs-boson.html
A worthwhile look at implications for physics:
http://www.nature.com/news/theorists-feast-on-higgs-data-1.11018
A worthwhile look at implications for physics:
http://www.nature.com/news/theorists-feast-on-higgs-data-1.11018
No comments:
Post a Comment