I love science. I really do BUT I cannot place my faith in its hands. Its truths are revealed as only the current understanding of the universe. Subsequent discoveries can modify or invalidate many past discoveries. These seem to be honest ways of looking at science. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Bertrand Russell Chardin said,Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Teilhard de Chardin EXCERPT: The new scale symmetry approach rewrites the beginning of that story. “The idea is that maybe even the Higgs mass is not really there,” said Alessandro Strumia, a particle physicist at the University of Pisa in Italy. “It can be understood with some dynamics.” The concept seems far-fetched, but it is garnering interest at a time of widespread soul-searching in the field. When the Large Hadron Collider at CERN Laboratory in Geneva closed down for upgrades in early 2013, its collisions had failed to yield any of dozens of particles that many theorists had included in their equations for more than 30 years. The grand flop suggests that researchers may have taken a wrong turn decades ago in their understanding of how to calculate the masses of particles. “We’re not in a position where we can afford to be particularly arrogant about our understanding of what the laws of nature must look like,” said Michael Dine, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has been following the new work on scale symmetry. “Things that I might have been skeptical about before, I’m willing to entertain.”
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:39:34 +0000
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