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To: dila813

It’s not clear at all what the heck he is talking/griping about, partly due to the lack of complete sentences. The basic, original form of the Standard Model includes in its spectrum of particles the Higgs particle, a massive, spin-0 particle that plays an important role in imparting masses to other particles that, at average energies of interaction higher than a certain value (corresponding to a particular phase transition), have zero masses. (”Spin zero” means that the “field operator” associated to the particle, a certain mathematical quantity, “transforms as a scalar under Lorentz transformations,” which means it remains invariant under arbitrary Lorentz transformations.) It is not possible to go into the entire content of particle physics in posts on a website, but there is nothing controversial about any of this - it is standard material taught in any graduate program in particle physics. Thus far, this particle has not been observed in experiments. There is now some data available Fermilab that points to (not yet conclusively) a variation on the original, default version of the Standard Model (there are many variations that have been hypothesized over the years, including the double Higgs variation that is relevant to this article: the double Higgs variation has already been written about for several years).


32 posted on 06/15/2010 10:34:52 PM PDT by E8crossE8
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To: E8crossE8

Other than the inertial-less drive (forgotten about that one!), yours is the only interesting post on the thread.

Personally, I like knot theory (not to be confused with string theory) as an elegant Grand Unified Theory. That or Pharaoh being the earthly avatar of the sun god Ra; whatever gets the chicks, you know.


33 posted on 06/15/2010 10:48:19 PM PDT by mrreaganaut (When can the Martian Republic declare independence from Earth?)
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To: E8crossE8

I wonder if the unit would fit my Road King?


36 posted on 06/16/2010 2:07:15 AM PDT by rahbert (Our enemy has yet to reveal himself...)
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