RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
September 13, 2011 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2011 at 8:37 am by little_monkey.)
(September 12, 2011 at 8:19 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Show off
Got me.
The thing with this stuff is that you can look at it as a stroke of genius or "creative cooking" theory. As long as there is justification -- read: its predictions are confirmed experimentally -- then it's the former. But should the higgs boson be ruled out, then for many detractors, this whole thing about the higgs mechanism giving mass to all the particles will be looked down as cooking theory. Now imagine with Supersymmetry Theory or String Theory, the amount of "creative cooking" in those two theories is just unbelievable, and those theories have extremely dim chances of ever being confirmed experimentally. Yet, many in the physics community go about as if these are the only game in town.
