Post by zendancer on Jul 4, 2012 21:59:53 GMT -5
It takes something like 6 Tev to "create" a Higgs Boson (which is only possible at CERN, a 27 mile circumference proton accelerator/hadron collider). The HB only theoretically exists for a fraction of a nanosecond. What do we actually see? Well, we see blips on an oscilloscope or tracks in a cloud chamber, or exposures of photographic emulsions on glass, or whatever, but whatever we then think (imagine) we see is inferred (imagined) based upon our ideas (products of imagination) of the standard model (imagined) and mathematics that only a handful of people can understand. The whole enterprise is necessary and humorous.
It begins with the idea that there are separately-existing things, and that one of those things is something called "matter." After we assume that something called 'matter" exists, we assume (imagine) that it must be composed of something. We then imagine what that something is, and begin to search for ideas (imagined) that will corroborate our ideas (products of imagination) of its somethingness. We build a lab, do experiments, and conclude that "particles," called "atoms," compose matter. We then do other experiments and find that whatever atoms are are complex (don't meet our expectations) and are imagined to be composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons. We do other experiments, and these three elemetary imaginary particles seem to behave in ways much much stranger than our existing ideas. Pretty soon we have to theorize (imagine) the existence of mesons, ions, positrons, photons, pions, hadrons, quarks, and a whole host of other sub-subatomic particles that manifest strangeness, charm, spin, and numerous other abstract characteristics. We then imagine Higgs fields and various other forces that interact with all of these bizarre entities in an effort to imagine how particles can exhibit mass (another imagined aspect of isness).
The story is quite amazing and has no end. When Son-of-CERN is built and Tev's ten times greater are created, the Higgs Boson will be found to be the manifestation of multiple megamorons related through complex arrays of semiphotospectroheliographical sporotiferous gentalic egglofrostigans.
This will have serious spiritual implications, and was foreseen by Lewis Carrol (or someone) who wrote
scrumdilicus willicus
humongoulobilligus
whirligigs whirligong
spinneriferify elementalisticalationalogs.
Or, it could be the result of an extra glass of Crane Lake Pinot Noir which only costs $5/bottle! Gotta love the idea of a God particle. ;D
It begins with the idea that there are separately-existing things, and that one of those things is something called "matter." After we assume that something called 'matter" exists, we assume (imagine) that it must be composed of something. We then imagine what that something is, and begin to search for ideas (imagined) that will corroborate our ideas (products of imagination) of its somethingness. We build a lab, do experiments, and conclude that "particles," called "atoms," compose matter. We then do other experiments and find that whatever atoms are are complex (don't meet our expectations) and are imagined to be composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons. We do other experiments, and these three elemetary imaginary particles seem to behave in ways much much stranger than our existing ideas. Pretty soon we have to theorize (imagine) the existence of mesons, ions, positrons, photons, pions, hadrons, quarks, and a whole host of other sub-subatomic particles that manifest strangeness, charm, spin, and numerous other abstract characteristics. We then imagine Higgs fields and various other forces that interact with all of these bizarre entities in an effort to imagine how particles can exhibit mass (another imagined aspect of isness).
The story is quite amazing and has no end. When Son-of-CERN is built and Tev's ten times greater are created, the Higgs Boson will be found to be the manifestation of multiple megamorons related through complex arrays of semiphotospectroheliographical sporotiferous gentalic egglofrostigans.
This will have serious spiritual implications, and was foreseen by Lewis Carrol (or someone) who wrote
scrumdilicus willicus
humongoulobilligus
whirligigs whirligong
spinneriferify elementalisticalationalogs.
Or, it could be the result of an extra glass of Crane Lake Pinot Noir which only costs $5/bottle! Gotta love the idea of a God particle. ;D