just out of pure curiosity, does anyone reckon that, if they did not find this particle and so would have to abandon the standard model, they would actually tell anyone that? I mean, if you built a multi-billion pound facility and produced ridiculously hyped data, would there not be some bias to that?
Furthermore, it seems to me that in certain matters there is a tendency to manipulate facts to suit theories as opposed to manipulating theories to suit facts.
Perhaps my issues stem from a misunderstanding but I also have another issue, yet again on which I'm probably quite clueless. If the higgs-boson field gives particles it's mass when they move through it, and it is made by the higgs-boson particle, how is the higgs-boson expected to have mass? this seems to me to require an infinite regression of mass-ascription, could someone more knowledgeable in physics help me through this?
Furthermore, it seems to me that in certain matters there is a tendency to manipulate facts to suit theories as opposed to manipulating theories to suit facts.
Perhaps my issues stem from a misunderstanding but I also have another issue, yet again on which I'm probably quite clueless. If the higgs-boson field gives particles it's mass when they move through it, and it is made by the higgs-boson particle, how is the higgs-boson expected to have mass? this seems to me to require an infinite regression of mass-ascription, could someone more knowledgeable in physics help me through this?
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