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University of California TV interviews Vivek Sharma in Spetember 2011, who is in charge of finding the Higgs if it’s there. Thanks to a friend for the link, for interested laypeople like myself.
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How firm?
Some links for non-scientists like myself: A commenter links here. CERN article here and background article here. One page explanation by different physicists about what it is and why they’re looking for it.
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What is the Higgs-Boson field/particle and how does it give other particles mass? What are fields?
What is the universe?: Carroll states: “A set of fields obeying the rules of quantum mechanics”
It makes me wonder…
Do we need philosophers, anyways?:
“The lesson to draw from his [Kant’s] careful discussion of this subject might well be not that there must be a form of reality lying beyond space and time but rather that nothing can be real that does not conform to spatial and temporal requirements. Space and time are bound up with particularity, and only what is particular can be real.”
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Carroll is a physicist at the California Institute of Technology who runs the Cosmic Variance website with others, as well as making frequent appearances on Bloggingheads (all links can be found at right).
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