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Posted on 12/17/2011 5:02:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...The properties and mass of the LHC's Higgs boson suggest that physicists will soon find superpartners for particles, and that we have begun to connect string theory to the real world...
Physicists thought that a Higgs boson, when discovered, would take this supersymmetric form, so how have we discovered one so apparently identical to the impossible standard-model version? Working out how to interpret this could be a large step towards the underlying broader theory that will extend the standard model.
One explanation could come from an unexpected source: string theory or its extension, M-theory. Contrary to what you may have heard, predictions about the real world can be made from string theory...
My collaborators and I have shown that in generic string and M-theories -- consistent with constraints from cosmology and incorporating the Higgs mechanism for generating mass -- the lightest Higgs boson behaves very much like the standard-model Higgs boson. And it has a mass of about 125 GeV, just as observed...
The same string theory (actually M-theory) that predicts the Higgs mass correctly also predicts that a spectrum of superpartners and some of their associated signals should now be discovered at the LHC. Particles such as gluinos -- superpartners to gluons, which mediate the strong force -- have not yet been searched for explicitly in the decay modes predicted by the string theories, mainly decay to top and bottom quarks. They could be found in these modes by the middle of next year. If so, the discovery may have a lower profile than the news of the Higgs boson, but the implications could be even greater. String theory could have come of age at last.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Bazinga!
Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky,
Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way,
Th' increasing prospects tire our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!"
My cat is a strong believer in string theory. So was Schroedingers cat before he was put it in a sub-atomic particle box.
Sounds like a lot of unintelligible connection of scientific words, terms, and phrases, by someone trying to justify research which seems to get more and more complicated, with the end goal getting more and more unreachable, the more they try.
I strongly suspect that the Higgs Boson doesn’t exist, at least in the realm of where it has been hypothesized to be.
The best ways to explain away the Higgs Boson are called Higgsless models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgsless_model
crikey, they can’t even spell “bosom” right.
Fascinating.
Biiiiinnnnggggoooo! We have a winner!!!
These con artists need 12 (or is it 13 now?) dimensions of reality to make their String Theory model work.
Complete and total cat poop (as in Schroedinger’s Cat)
Are all these theories discovered by constantly evolving mathmatical equations on chalk boards?
when you have no experimental date....yes !
It’s called mental masturbation.
That’s nothing. Our two Maine Coon cats, Norman and Olivia, are seriously into wire tie and string trimmer discards theory. They bring them back to us for approval.
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