sci.physics.particle

Zilla wrote:
>
> I read the current February Scientific American issue

pity

> which

that

> focuses on the Large Hadron Collider and the coming physics.

No; proposed discoveries. There is no reason to believe the Higgs
boson or SUSI partners will be detected. Physics has degenerated into
perturbative and Yukawa treatments abetted by numerical solution
methods that can exactly predict anything. BFD. The Higgs is
especially egregious as the source of mass in the Standard Model that
has never contained mass. It's insubordination that empirical reality
contradicts the elegant math.

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
Richard Feynman. Rather than improve the Stanard Model we've sought
to bury it under offal.

Proton decay half-life was *exquisitely* predicted to be a
supersymmetry necessity safely outside experimental falsification. 50
kilotonnes of ulrapure water inside Super-Kamiokande empirically
falsified it. The calculations were then "repeated" to give a
half-life some 100X as long - a supersymmetry necessity safely
outside experimental falsification. Alas, methods are now in the tube
for swallowing even that. Not to worry! The calculations are being
"repeated to higher accuracy."

> It mentions the so called Hierarchy Problem. I encountered this
> concept before in Randall's Warped Passages & others but
> didn't totally undersTOOD them. I thought it was simply
> about why gravity is very weak compared to the electroweak
> or unification scale...

Nobody knows; all guesses are cheap speculation uterlya bsent
experimental observation. What we do definitively know without a
single exception is that every and all attempts to quantize
gravitation are seven-second cheek slapper disasters. As with
religion, failure is a test of faith and must then be more vigorously
pursued. Seeking a different tack is blasphemy - too risky for
possessing unknown hazards.

An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the better
the treatment - and the more that is required. Best efforts will not
substitute for knowledge. Rather than foster brilliance, we allocate
for its suppression. In order to maintain an untenable position you
must be actively ignorant... though stupidity, religion, insanity, or
an MBA are passively adequate.

NEVER fund young faculty! Pour money into tenured mediocrity.
Immortality has no impetus to improve and rock the boat.

> and I thought before so what they
> are just like that. but the article and succeeding researches in
> the net say there is a technical explanation and it is about
> the Higgs. Theoretical justification says that the Higgs boson
> which satisfy the electroweak theory should have almost planck
> mass but in reality it is much lower.
[snip]

There is no Higgs. If the Higgs discovered, Uncle Al will apologize.
Given that the most likely Higgs mass range has already been minutely
explored, Uncle Al is on the fat side of the bet.

> BTW.. I also read that chiral symmetry protect the masses
> of the bosons and fermions such as quarks and electrons
> from undergoing the same problem as the Higgs which
> can by theory reach planck mass scale but not.
[snip]

Planck mass, time, and length are dimension matching with aggregates
of "universal constants." Unlike dimensionless constants in
engineering, Planck quantities have no meaning independent of
observer. There is a fast, cheap, simple, and equisitely sesnsitive
test of chiral vacuum background anistropy,

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2

The physics community continues to actively oppose its execution
because "there is too much risk of failure." This can be contrasted
with 100% failure in quantized gravitation, 100% failure in
Equivalence Principle violation detection, 100% failure in vacuum
background detection, e.g.,

"New CP-Violation and Preferred-Frame Tests with Polarized Electrons"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 021603 (2006)


100% failure in Lorentz violation detection,

http://arXiv.org/abs/0706.2031
Physics Today 57(7) 40 (2004)
http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p40.shtml

http://fsweb.berry.edu/academic/mans/clane/
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/3/7

100% failure in axion detection,


http://cast.web.cern.ch/CAST/


The mere thought of overturning 430 years of physics with two benzil
crystals melted in a pair of differential scanning calorimeters
promises some very real *known* hazards.

> The Hierarchy Problem is the mother of physics problem in
> which convensional physicists focus. I wonder how come
> the kooks here don't discuss this.

You lack self-awarness. The primary indicator of an idiot is absence
of literature citations. Universal truth and philosophical
necessities don't need no stinking empirical observations. Every word
of the bible is exact and true right from god's mouth. Anybody who
says the words are different in different bibles is thereby
demonstrated to be unqualified to comment.

> This is much more
> interesting than any of their materials. Come on. Let's
> focus on the Hierarchy Problem as it is what really
> matter.

Observation is real. Theory is an excuse for inaction.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2