sci.physics.electromag

On Feb 12, 8:59=A0pm, "Autymn D. C." wrote:
> Read my comments at the end. :)
>
> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32679
> Feb 1, 2008
> Constant failure
> Have we defined our fundamental constants with maximum efficiency?
> Robert P Crease invites your comments
>
> In Proposition 3 of On the Measurement of the Circle, Archimedes
> asserts, based on calculations involving regular polygons
> circumscribed around and inscribed in a circle, that "the ratio of the
> circumference of any circle to its diameter is less than 3 1/7 but
> greater than 3 10/71". He thereby strongly reinforced, if he did not
> actually create, the tradition of considering that ratio, two
> millennia later referred to as =F0, to be fundamental.
>
> Was Archimedes wrong?

He was right, but in the wrong way.
He correctly defined the measurement as fundamental,
but he unfortunately for history, bogusly defined "fundamental".
Since it was only later discovered, that
e, (2*pi), sin(pi), and "=3D" are just as fundamental as pi.




>
> Oct 6, 2004
> The greatest equations ever
>
> Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a
> poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease
> discusses the results of his reader survey
>
> http://sciam.com/article.cfm?id=3Dthe-coming-revolutions-in-particle-ph...=

> The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
>
> The current Standard Model of particle physics begins to unravel when
> probed much beyond the range of current particle accelerators. So no
> matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to take
> physics into new territory
> By Chris Quigg
>
> The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is certain to find something new and
> provocative as it presses into unexplored territory.
>
> The Standard Model of particle physics requires a particle known as
> the Higgs boson, or a stand-in to play its role, at energies probed by
> the LHC. The Higgs, in turn, poses deep questions of its own, whose
> answers should be found in the same energy range.
>
> These phenomena revolve around the question of symmetry. Symmetries
> underlie the interactions of the Standard Model but are not always
> reflected in the operation of the model. Understanding why not is a
> key question.