Industry Seismology and Stuff
Industry Seismology and Stuff
Higgs
The Province: If you prick physicists, do we not
"The main thrust of your argument, though it is
somewhat hard to find, seems to be that physicists
and their supporters don't care about people....
You'll be happy to know we've been making great
strides, as the Large Hadron Collider was
originally set to be a giant cage where physicists
would enter with the sole purpose of beating up
baby birds, for no other reason than to upset the
general public."
Science News: Higgs hysteria
"... deepening knowledge of the physical world has always in the past produced unforeseen future societal benefits. When James Clerk Maxwell predicted, and then Heinrich Hertz discovered, electromagnetic waves, nobody foresaw the economic consequences of television, microwave ovens and Wi-Fi. Particles of antimatter, discovered in cosmic rays, have found uses in medical imaging. Nobody knew at first that Einstein’s relativity theory would allow your car to tell you when to turn. Or that the mysterious math of quantum mechanics would empower lasers and computer chips, revolutionizing everything from grocery stores and music players to mass communication."
Nature: Theorists feast on Higgs data
"Many theorists regard SUSY [supersymmetry] as the most promising route to a broader theory of particles and forces, and a possible solution to puzzles such as the nature of cosmic dark matter. But the LHC has yielded few signs of SUSY. Aside from a handful of tantalizing observations, the Higgs boson seems to match the standard model’s predictions perfectly."
2012.07.22