How many Higgs?

[Joel Olson]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/

[tim]

Post by Joel Olson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/

Are Higgs bosons evenly distributed throughout the Universe? Or, is there
one behind the chair, and another over there? I'm assuming the inverse
square of these fields, so measurements of mass would vary unless the
density of these bosons proved ubiquitous.

Then there is Higgs, the Boson's Mate. GG predicts there must be at least
two. Perhaps Zeetha (?) is the symmetrical mate to Higgs? So many
questions!

Nice concise summary.

[Joel Olson]

Post by Joel Olson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/

Are Higgs bosons evenly distributed throughout the Universe? Or, is there one
behind the chair, and another over there? I'm assuming the inverse square of
these fields, so measurements of mass would vary unless the density of these
bosons proved ubiquitous.
Then there is Higgs, the Boson's Mate. GG predicts there must be at least
two. Perhaps Zeetha (?) is the symmetrical mate to Higgs? So many questions!
Nice concise summary.

So the particles that confer mass have mass themselves.
Perhaps they compound.

Ah yes, the Passionate Higgs!

No drought at Mechanicsburg.

[tim]

Post by Joel Olson

Post by tim

Post by Joel Olson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/

Are Higgs bosons evenly distributed throughout the Universe? Or, is
there one behind the chair, and another over there? I'm assuming the
inverse square of these fields, so measurements of mass would vary unless
the density of these bosons proved ubiquitous.
Then there is Higgs, the Boson's Mate. GG predicts there must be at
least two. Perhaps Zeetha (?) is the symmetrical mate to Higgs? So many
questions!
Nice concise summary.

So the particles that confer mass have mass themselves.
Perhaps they compound.

Yes, interesting! They postulate the Higgs field itself acts upon space,
making the whole mess like molasses and mass is simply resistance to
increase or decrease of inertia caused by a hard slog. If so, how do we
explain neutrinos and other "mass-less" particles? All things seem to be
both wave and particle, it seems, but some seem more of one than the other?
Can't wait until next year when they fire up the accelerator again. They
are going to double the energy input. Stay tuned!

Post by Joel Olson
Ah yes, the Passionate Higgs!
No drought at Mechanicsburg.

There are no flat-chested women in Mechanicsburg, not that there's anything
wrong with that, they are just drawn that way. Apologies to Jessica Rabbit.

Sorry about the cc, Joel. More coffee, please...

[Joel Olson]

Post by tim

Post by Joel Olson

Post by tim

Post by Joel Olson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/

Are Higgs bosons evenly distributed throughout the Universe? Or, is there
one behind the chair, and another over there? I'm assuming the inverse
square of these fields, so measurements of mass would vary unless the
density of these bosons proved ubiquitous.
Then there is Higgs, the Boson's Mate. GG predicts there must be at least
two. Perhaps Zeetha (?) is the symmetrical mate to Higgs? So many questions!
Nice concise summary.

So the particles that confer mass have mass themselves.
Perhaps they compound.

Yes, interesting! They postulate the Higgs field itself acts upon space,
making the whole mess like molasses and mass is simply resistance to
increase or decrease of inertia caused by a hard slog. If so, how do we
explain neutrinos and other "mass-less" particles? All things seem to be
both wave and particle, it seems, but some seem more of one than the other?
Can't wait until next year when they fire up the accelerator again. They
are going to double the energy input. Stay tuned!

Post by Joel Olson
Ah yes, the Passionate Higgs!
No drought at Mechanicsburg.

There are no flat-chested women in Mechanicsburg, not that there's anything
wrong with that, they are just drawn that way. Apologies to Jessica Rabbit.
Sorry about the cc, Joel. More coffee, please...

Speaking of wave/particle duality - I picked Minsky's Emotion book back up,
making a little progress in it. He's sketching out all the requirements of an AI
with "common sense". At one point he conjectures that memory works by
linking words/ideas to "what they might be good for" since that is often the
criteria that evokes them. Potential goals/solutions as we learn vocabulary.

Anyway he's still a long way from the wetware, which pulses (synchronizing
waves) but is still composed of individual synapses at the ends of the
dendrites.
The electrical engineers are getting very close to watching it.