Posted on 08/27/2004 6:42:39 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping!
The Higgs will be discovered whether it exists or not. This is because if there is no Higgs, the W bosons become strongly interacting, and form a particle called a technirho, which behaves like a Higgs and plays a very similar role. But even if that's wrong, SOMETHING has to break the electroweak symmetry, and has to do it at an energy below 1 TeV. The behavior of that something is pretty tightly constrained.
This could turn up in a creationist quote salad someday. ;)
Good point, so let's make sure it has the proper (and weightier!) attribution: Chris Quigg first said it.
Works for me.
Huygens would have loved this. He was the first major systemizer on probability theory.
Will I get a free subscription to the British edition of Penthouse if I win?
>The Higgs will be discovered whether it exists or not.Now Physicist will be immortal! (Since this Chris Quigg guy was mentioned in a separate correction post, he won't get the "credit".)This could turn up in a creationist quote salad someday. ;)
Thanks for the post. Big Science is the frontier (and it costs big money).
and maybe..wagering on the big science the breakthrough might be a good addition to TradeSports.
Yes. And money talks. Speaking of which ... is there a website somewhere that lists the currently available prizes? I don't mean things like the Nobel. What I have in mind are specific goal-oriented prizes. I don't imagine that there's a prize being offered for discovering the Higgs particle, but prizes exist. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic for prize money. I recall seeing a TV special several years ago about a prize for a human-powered aircraft. There must be loads of these out there. Know of a listing?
I can do this thing in a swimming pool where I squirt water out of my bare hands like I had a squirt gun in there. It's a hard little stream and I'm real good at it. It might be my most unique skill. There's got to be a prize for stuff like that.
"What I have in mind are specific goal-oriented prizes. I don't imagine that there's a prize being offered for discovering the Higgs particle, but prizes exist. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic for prize money. I recall seeing a TV special several years ago about a prize for a human-powered aircraft. There must be loads of these out there. Know of a listing?"
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some Science Prizes
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Kremer Prizes (several) for human powered flight http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/j_d_mcintyre/kremer.htm
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Mars Prize
To claim the prize the constant must launch to Mars, land on Mars, stay on Mars for at least 14 months, and have a at least a 2 person colony when you leave.
http://www.marsprize.org/
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Space Elevator Prize
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201400/posts
"Enthusiasts on Friday unveiled an effort to establish an annual competition for space-elevator technologies, taking a page from the playbook for other high-tech contests such as the $10 million Ansari X Prize."
Twenty quatloos on the newcomer!
Oh my God!!! That's not unique. At least one other person, namely me, has exactly that same skill. Everyone I know thinks I am some kind of mutant or something. Good to know there's someone else out there like me.
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