Today could very well be a most historic date- not the traditional 4th and all its associations, but a paradigm shift in Physics with the announcement that the Higgs- Boson particle may have been verified. I do not pretend to understand all the mathematics or Physics but I know this is big- this is the particle that creates us and all the physical world around us- it is what stirs the 'cosmic soup' from which all things are formed. At least I think it does.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/scien ... le.html?hp
What holds my awe is the beautiful and elegant mathematics that predicted its existence. That and the apparent simple beauty of the elemental cosmic laws which its discovery seems to affirm. I am proud to be a member of the cognitive human species today.
The Big Bang
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Re: The Big Bang
Well it seems to have been confirmed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/scien ... ef=science
Congratulations Mr. Higgs see you in Stockholm in December.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/scien ... ef=science
Congratulations Mr. Higgs see you in Stockholm in December.
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Further wonders of science: This is so Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/scien ... ef=science
And it is going forward with a simple 8 track player and the technological sophistication that might power your child's "tickle me Elmo".
Deep Deep space here we come.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/scien ... ef=science
And it is going forward with a simple 8 track player and the technological sophistication that might power your child's "tickle me Elmo".
Deep Deep space here we come.
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While viewing the national Evening news this past Saturday I was treated to a story about the first sounds to be sent back from Voyager out there in deep space- no, it was not "ET phone home" but it did sound distinctly like the sound made by connecting to a fax machine.
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How does that line go? I have deeper ways to scare me close to home........
These photos are impressive, beautiful and fundamentally disturbing:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... _2013.html
These photos are impressive, beautiful and fundamentally disturbing:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... _2013.html
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