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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?


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-physics=

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.