Still Looking Like the Higgs

ScienceNOW ^ | 15 November 2012 | Adrian Cho

[neverdem]

Credit: CERN

Still too soon to know. That's the latest word from particle physicists working with the world's largest atom smasher—Europe's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland—as they try to figure out whether the particle they discovered in July is precisely the long-sought Higgs boson or something a tad different. The key question is whether the new particle decays into combinations of familiar particles at the rates that physicists' standard model predicts. So far, the measured decay rates generally match expectations, but the statistical uncertainties are too large to say anything conclusive, physicists working with the gargantuan particle detectors known as ATLAS and CMS reported today at a conference in Tokyo. The plots above show the measured decay rates relative to the standard model predictions, so that a value of 1 means agreement. (The vertical line in the CMS plot shows the average of all the measurements.) More data will shrink the error bars and yield a clearer picture.

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[2ndDivisionVet]

Couldn’t this somehow be the key to unlimited energy, space & time travel?

[higgmeister]

...as they try to figure out whether the particle they discovered in July is precisely the long-sought Higgs boson or something a tad different.

I could tell you what I think.

[Nifster]

no no and no

[2ndDivisionVet]

That's what I get for believing those guys on Big Bang Theory.

[healy61]

I would be interested.

[healy61]

I would be interested.

[Nifster]

One of my favorite shows....and it hits way to close to home with those I know and hang out with

[SpaceBar]

rock paper scissors lizard spock

[higgmeister]

I think not so much. My handle is a play on my name as Rob Schneider’s office flunky at the photo-copier would have done, not from being an authority. Still, I’m rooting for the Higgs boson to soon be more than Particle Theory with, hopes that it could advance finding a Unified Field Theory.

[Yo-Yo]

Bazinga!

[Yo-Yo]

My handle is a play on my name as Rob Schneider’s office flunky at the photo-copier would have done

The Higg-a-rama...Higg-a-lig-a-ding-dong...Higggggggg.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[onedoug]

The entire universe would have to be affected for time travel to take place. In the past it would have to be smaller, and in the future it would have to larger by its expansion.

I doubt if it will ever be possible.

[AFPhys]

Higgs at 126GeV/c² ... hmmm... looking very promising for that now.

I honestly thought it would be at a much higher mass.

[MHGinTN]

Doug, you're already a time traveler, albeit you now move in only one direction. ... BUT, if our concept of time was a bit different, say perhaps that time is a volume in which linear (past) and planar (present) time are expressions, then the soulish you and I are in planar time, sensing only linear time via the body, and our brain/mind duality functions to lend meaning to what is of our existence, situated as it is at the junction (planar/present) between linear and volumetric time. We can project our accumulated 'IS' (via our memory function) to anticipate/conjecture what will be, but our duality (the body/soul duality is what I refer to) is 'in' planar temporal reference to the Universe as the bubble in which we exist. The body is trapped and decaying in linear temporal alignment to the Universe, while the soul exists in a different, planar temporal alignment with the Universe. [Sheldon is one of my mentors donchaknow. ;^)]

[MHGinTN]

pingaling ... this is as simply put as I can express ‘it’ ...

[onedoug]

As to the soul, God knows, literally. I believe in “life after death” but haven’t the vaguest notion of how God works it.

If the universe is indeed a “bubble” (M-Theory), and even if there are infinite bubbles, even each with different physics, it wouldn’t preclude God for me. Indeed it would magnify His power.

I tend to agree that we are “trapped” in this universe. And I suspect, again, that we’re trapped within the constraints it places on time by its overall expansion.

May I also deign to ask, who is Sheldon? Drake?

[bert]

Some would led us to believe the answer is 43. In their hearts however they know the answer is actually what it always has been..... forty - two. (which is actually 38)

[MHGinTN]

See post eleven ... but it won't be amusing if you have no idea what the TV show 'The Big Bang Theory' is all about.

I was offering the postulate that it is our body which is trapped in this Universe of our perceptions ... except that the soul, which is not trapped in the linear temporal expression of the Universe, is already in a temporal configuration which amounts to non-dissipation, temporally.

So we have an aspect which is already in the 'life state' which will be more of our configuration than while occupying the body we now have which is trapped in a dissipation state of linear temporal alignment. God has assured us that we shall have another body to which the temporally untrapped soul will be adapted.

I have what some say is an odd conceptualization of 'life after death', since I believe we already have something 'timeless' that is our soul. The Bible tells us 'the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them' and also that 'those who have died in Christ shall God bring with Him at the last trump and shout'.

I wonder, is the arrangement of the soul and spirit within similar to the arrangement of the body and soul within? If so, might we some day have a soul being informed by the spirit, in a non-dissipation temporal state of the Universe?

It's all tied up in our primitive conceptualization of 'what is dimension Time'.