Hi All,
Rather than start another thread on the Higgs boson, I thought it might be appropriate here.
This is a great little read. It is an interesting appraisal of the relevance of the Higgs boson to physics and whether we are any closer to the
"theory of everything".
Some excerpts ...
<Lederman himself confessed that “the Goddamn Particle” might have been a better name for the Higgs, given how hard it had been to detect “and the expense it is causing.” >
<But the Higgs doesn’t take us any closer to a unified theory than climbing a tree would take me to the Moon.>
<... The quest for a unified theory will come to be seen not as a branch of science, which tells us about the real world, but as a kind of mathematical theology.>
Some of the philosophical points here are also relevant to discussions going on in other threads.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...nd-of-physics/
Regards, Rob