Posted on 11/06/2016 8:17:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Since the Large Hadron Collider at CERN turned on, it’s brought with it an incredible slew of results. Large numbers of rare, exotic and unstable particles have been created, and their decays have been measured to unprecedented precision. The Higgs boson has been created and observed to have a mass of 126 GeV/c2, branching and decaying in exactly the ratios the Standard Model predicts. As it now stands, we’ve detected every particle and antiparticle predicted by the most successful particle physics theory of all time. Unless we get hit by a big physics surprise, the LHC will become renowned for having found the Higgs Boson and nothing else fundamental. If these results hold, there’s no window into what lies beyond the Standard Model coming from traditional experimental particle physics.
But that by no means is the same thing as saying “the Standard Model is all there is.” Quite to the contrary, there are a large number of observations that tell us quite clearly that there’s very likely more to the Universe than just the quarks, leptons and bosons of the Standard Model. While experiments are telling us that low-energy supersymmetry and extra dimensions probably don’t exist (or are so constrained that they’re irrelevant), there are plenty of pieces of evidence that there’s more to existence than the Standard Model alone. What else is out there? There are five strong, independent lines of inquiry that reveal there’s got to be something.
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I could have a refined high-level scientific discussion but it’s not advisable to engage in such with what the street language would call an a**hole.
Me or scientists? I thought we were on the same page.
With sophomoric dabblers of science who impugn those that believe in ONE higher power.
Most every upper tier scientist becomes tempered by time and experience to the point that they give in to discussing and contemplating the metaphysical.
It is to Kurt Gödel’s genius that he started a scientific movement involving the human intellect that make us focus on the practicality of computers. There is no question that computers are a great aid to humanity. And they have and will continue to greatly affect all other sciences.
Are you familiar with Rupert Sheldrake’s work?
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