I’ve finished my third and fourth articles on the Higgs discovery (the first two being on the data itself and why it is convincing, and on the great skill and the bits of luck that led to a discovery occurring so soon.) The new articles are about why I personally think the new particle is almost certainly a Higgs particle of some type, and about the outstanding question of whether this particle is the simplest possible type of Higgs (the Standard Model Higgs particle) or not.
I believe that nothing I’ve written in these two new articles is original; it has all (or almost all) been stated in papers or preprints by other people. That said, what’s in these articles represents my own personal views (since at this early date I have no way to know what fraction of my colleagues agree with me), and those views are not yet set in stone… so experts with well-reasoned arguments are encouraged to try to change my mind.
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” can be summarized in one effective cliche: you are under the same sky.
Hi Matt,
We had some discussions about how convincing the CMS and ATLAS plots really are.
To convince myself I did a simple analysis of what I can get out of the plots using an old trick. This trick kind of roughly works if you have no more inside information.
You just look at all the data points and count how many are, by more than itheir error bar, outside where they are expected to be (from the drawings).
Then you get a rough picture what is the probability that a point could be shifted by more than its error bar.
You also have to count how many points you have to shift over (roughly) the error bar where the detection is made, to get rid of the detection.
Using the direct plots:
http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/latest-results-from-higgs-search.html
and
http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/observation-new-particle-mass-125-gev
I got: roughly
ATLAS H->photons
Points 59
Outside: 7
Points to shift: 3
ATLAS H->4l
Points 30
Outside: 4
Points to shift: 2
CMS H->photons
Points 30
Outside: 5
Points to shift: 2
ATLAS H->4l
Points 26
Outside: 3
Points to shift: 2
Combined probability not a detection: (7/59)^3 x (4/30)^2 x (5/30)^2 x (3/26)^2= 1×10^-8
Giving about: 1 in a hundred million
EVEN THIS RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE ANALYSIS SEEMS PRETTY CONVINCING!
No point on commenting on these nonsensical comments.
I prefer reading about physics, both theory and experiments, rather then this childish blabber
Hmm. Oaktree’s …ahem… comment… is not as obvious as shmith’s, but still consists of randomly regurgitated sentences…with a video attached….well hey, at least the production levels are improving.
I believe shmith’s …er…monologue??? is computer generated random words and parts of sentences lifted from some popular physics book or article. I guess its supposed to be a joke, or general snarkiness. By the number of times I see the dated and now unpopular term “God particle” I’m guessing the source material was sampled from Leon Lederman’s book.
“The God Particle” … prophetic or rubbish?
If the is God then did God create the universe or did the universe create God?
If God created the universe then that would be very problematic w.r.t. causality, what caused God? However, if the universe created God then that would be well within the realm of our real universe all our questions both from evolutionism and creationism would lead to a common goal.
Given all that we know about our universe and ourselves:
1. What could God be?
2. Why would there be a need for God in the first place?
3. How could God control the universe, which created Him?
A curious observation is as the structures, atoms and molecules, become more complex the outcome, evolution of the universe, tends to life and beyond to consciousness, (we are very high up in the overall scheme of existence).
We have a consciousness which is very difficult to define and formulate with the same math we use to formulate physical phenomena. Below is a very interesting video of a 3D formulation of what the known universe looks like. As you can see it has a striking resemblance to the structure of our brain, the structure that gives us consciousness.
1. Do you believe that a universal consciousness (God) can exist given this data?
2. Like our own consciousness can control our brain’s motor functions and hence our body functions, could the universal consciousness (once it “turned on”) create the more complex physical fields from the fundamental field (gravity or something else to the strong field) and hence drove the primordial chaotic universe to one of order and expanding, i.e. the expansion of the universe is not related to the initial conditions at the big bang but rather the universal consciousness is reinforcing and evolving to a higher and higher state. A principle of conscious advancement as the driving force for everything. No conservation laws need to be violated or invalidated.
Is God the universal consciousness created by the magnificent structures of our universe, see the video below.
Sorry, no embedded videos please.
May I remind you that the term “God particle” was invented by a publisher so that he could sell more books? We know nothing more about the divine from the discovery of the H boson than we did after the discovery of the W and Z bosons.
This is a science site, first and foremost, and while I have no problem with religious viewpoints, the place for such discussions is not in a comment to an article about the discovery of this new particle.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Albert Einstein
Good bye Professor.
What a confusion! I believe Prof.Strassler will have difficulty understanding this gibberish, let alone answering it…
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