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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No one thinks it’s a god. Everyone who understands it knows it’s of utmost importance, because it ties everything together - so important that it got nicknamed with the most reverent name with which one can nick. Had we somehow not been able to discover the neutron until now, it would have been extremely-mega-super important to tying everything up, and then it would be the god particle, and would receive the same amount of non-worship.
Well you raised a question about Christians being offended but what they thought was a dig? But then you said that no one actually believes it is related to God anyway.
“At some point in the future the general public won’t be using the word ‘God’ at all to describe anything.”
Gee whiz? Thanks! I am contemplating “Who would Fardels bear” since Hamlet was contemplating suicide. Considering also that looking backward at the history in the past 100 years and forward to an indefinite period that scientist are doing a fair job making it universally possible.
“Is the experiment repeatable?”
Yes, but they’ll have to build another large hadron collider because the first experiment burned up the original collider.
Just kidding. Yes, that’s the real question. Repeatability. I did a quick google search on that and didn’t turn up anything obvious. Lot’s of discussion about whether Higgs was really found though. May be moot anyway, as there were lots of interesting discussions trashing the uselessness of the Standard Model anyway.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
FRiend, I don't recall that we have interacted before -- but I sense that your view of creation, our Creator and science is considerably akin to mine.
In my #27, you'll note that I use "Ruach Elohim" instead of your "spark" analogy -- and I have a couple of specific reasons for that.
I'll contact you via FReepMail so we can get better acquainted...
Thanks for the heads up, dear brother in Christ!
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