"This makes the 4th year in a row the Nobel Prize commission must not have received my entry. I'm going to have to have a talk with the mailman".
Posted on 10/08/2013 6:58:33 AM PDT by lbryce
Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.
The insight has been hailed as one of the most important in the understanding of the cosmos. Without the Higgs mechanism all particles would travel at the speed of light and atoms would not exist.
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quantum energy waveforms
What are the quantum energy waveforms made of?...............
“quantum energy waveforms”
As are all particles.
If it has mass, it is energy
Absolutely. I’ve always found it astonishing that so many “Christians” cannot fathom that the complexity of the universe is God’s work. They seem to imply that God is not great enough for any of this to be part of his plan. Instead they label people as infidels, much like their mullah counterparts who claim to know the mind of God and won’t tolerate anyone who doesn’t believe as they do.
Science in many ways is the new popular religion and I think that is what a lot of Christians object to. Our faith should be reserved for God. Science is in the business of proof.
(Note: already called "the God particle"... by scientists...
(How about "Ruach Elohim" particle...?) '-)
Higg’s Field = “an invisible field pervading all of space”
Reminiscent of the old theory of Ether pervading the universe. I guess what goes around comes around. Still, I’ll have to say that I just love all of these invisible fields, invisible dark mass fields, and invisible dark energy fields necessary to explain stuff. I don’t mind the invisibility part so much as the “field” part. It’s not enough to be just invisible, but it has to be invisible AND all over the place too!
Still, all just mathematical constructs trying to describe reality, and which get more and more complicated as we go along, each complication added to try to account for the latest discrepancy between observation and the mathematics in the “old” theory.
BTW, I wonder if they really DID find the Higg’s Boson, or if they “found” it because they WANTED to find it so badly. After all, “to find the elusive particle, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had to pore over data from the wreckage of trillions of sub-atomic proton collisions.” Not to mention billions of dollars were spent and tens of thousands of people worked on the project for a decade. It’d have been quite a letdown to NOT find it, so maybe they just kept looking until one day they believed they could say, “We found it”.
Don't know, but I think it's in here someplace! LOL
I don’t know and have never known a scientist (and I’ve known/met/worked with many) who sees science as a religion. I’ve known a few who don’t believe in God and more who don’t suscribe to any denomination but do believe in God, but never any who worship science.
Science is not just about proofs, it is synthesis of ideas or theories and attempting to provide repeatable evidence as a reasonable, but not infallible proof of a theory. Scientists who fake data and studies to “prove” something like global warming have been around since the beginning of time; just as there are medical and yes, religious charlatins throughout history.
Proofs by themselves do not stand alone except maybe in math and even there proofs may be shown to be wrong in which case the pursuit of a solid proof begins again.
I see all of the amazing workings of the universe in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, to be at the hand of God. Why is the Higgs-Boson concept not the spark from the finger of God that began the universe, “In the beginning...”? Is God not that great?
but... that’s math not physics...
See physics is the language, numbers are the alphabet, and math constructs the sentences.
Engineering and chemistry is application of the language - books, plays, songs, conversation if you will.
Most of the other sciences are either subsets of engineering and chemistry or provide categorizing and labeling. Sort of a dictionary/encyclopedia (botany for example).
The mailman ain’t your problem, kid.
Stated another way. Prove that a vacuum interfacing with a vacuum results in something other than a vacuum.
that is WAY different from what I thought, which was “Chicago’s mayor”
Many people don't see yoga as a religion either but that doesn't make it less of a religion. Have you ever heard someone say that "climate change" is "settled science"? Have you ever heard someone say that homosexuality is genetic? Have you ever delved into a study only to realize that the media stated a conclusion that was the opposite of what the study showed evidence of?
I know what science is and I know what religion is. When "scientists" begin to insist that their "science" be taken on faith then it is a religion not science. When actual science proves a theory to be incorrect and these "scientists" basically declare any opposing theory to be heresy then it's a religion.
I see all of the amazing workings of the universe in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, to be at the hand of God.
I think that is a very healthy attitude.
Why is the Higgs-Boson concept not the spark from the finger of God that began the universe, “In the beginning...”? Is God not that great?
I don't think the Higgs-Boson concept could exist in the singularity that existed at the beginnings of our universe.(in theory). Regardless note that I'm not arguing against Higgs-Boson. It makes a lot more sense than "dark matter".
Can’t I just say that to vacuums sucking on each other create a kink in the hose?
Is the experiment repeatable?
“some Christians are upset because it seems to be a dig or a blasphemy against God”
Then why call it god particle? Do you think it is?
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