UPDATE 5:57 AM The live webcast from CERN is overloaded but it appears that uncertainty still exists about the HB, they may have glimpsed its signal around 126 GeV – see below – Anthony
“The God Particle” may have been found.
Scientists in Geneva are expected to announce they have caught a glimpse of the elusive Higgs Boson on Tuesday in a press conference planned for 8 AM EST.
The particle is a vital factor in science’s understanding of the universe, but it has never been seen by scientists in any particle accelerator, perhaps until now. The theory of its existence goes all the way back to 1964.
Finding the Higgs Boson is one of the main goals of the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which recently started operation amidst worry that the search for the HB might open a rift or create a small black hole.
If scientists have gotten a glimpse of the Higgs, it could have far-reaching consequences in particle physics. It is the only particle predicted by the current favored theory of particle physics that has not yet been observed experimentally. Its discovery would likely validate the Standard Model theory.
Some trivia from the Wikipedia entry on it:
The Higgs boson is often referred to as “the God particle” by the media,[50] after the title of Leon Lederman‘s book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?[51] Lederman initially wanted to call it the “goddamn particle,” but his editor would not let him.[52]
I’m sure our physicist friend Luboš Motl will have some coverage at The Reference Frame once the announcement is made for us folks that are three quarks shy of full set of fermions.
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The Guardian reports on live tweets and what portions of the webcast they could view
While Fabiola Gianotti goes through the slides from the Atlas experiment, excluding various energies for the Higgs signal, here’s some thoughts from Prof Stephan Söldner-Rembold, Head of the Particle Physics Group at the University of Manchester:
ATLAS and CMS have presented an important milestone in their search for the Higgs particle, but it is not yet sufficient for a proper discovery given the amount of data recorded so far. Still, I am very excited about it, since the quality of the LHC results is exceptional.
The Higgs particle seems to have picked itself a mass which makes things very difficult for us physicists. Everything points at a mass in the range 115-140 GeV and we concentrate on this region with our searches at the LHC and at the Tevatron.
The results indicate we are about half-way there and within one year we will probably know whether the Higgs particle exists with absolute certainty, but it is unfortunately not a Christmas present this year.
The Higgs particle will, of course, be a great discovery, but it would be an even greater discovery if it didn’t exist where theory predicts it to be. This would be a huge surprise and secretly we hope this might happen. If this is case, there must be something else that takes the role of the “standard” Higgs particle, perhaps a family of several Higgs particles or something even more exotic. The unexpected is always the most exciting.
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From Cern: “#ATLAS sees a small excess at a Higgs mass of 126 GeV coming from 3 channels. Local significance: 3.6 sigma but only 2.4 sigma globally”
That’s not enough for a “discovery” (which techically needs 5 sigma) but it is very interesting evidence for the Higgs.
Also: “#ATLAS excludes a #Higgs mass between 131 and 453 GeV at 95% confidence level at #CERN Higgs seminar”
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Fabiola Gianotti has finished her presentation. So far,we know that Atlas seems to have found evidence for a bump around 126GeV for something that looks like the Higgs.
Next up is Guido Tonelli, spokesperson for Cern’s other main detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). As @iansample says, “So. What we’re looking for now is whether CMS detector has seen Higgs-like signals around the same mass (126GeV).”
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How science has changed…doing some searching on the Atlas experiment, I came across this commercialization of the science at the Atlas store. At least they aren’t offering Pecan logs.
‘From Analogue Models to Gravitating Vacuum’
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.1155
“The aether of the 21-st century is the quantum vacuum, which is a new
form of matter. This is the real substance”
Meaning, aether has mass, aether physically occupies three dimensional
space and aether is physically displaced by matter.
Force exerted by displaced aether toward matter is gravity.
This is what Voyager found evidence of.
Vince Causey says:
December 13, 2011 at 5:02 am
I am stunned.
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They may well have discovered a new particle, but does it mean that the Higgs field exists? That is the question.
Does any field exist? Electromagnetic, gravitational or otherwise? This debate periodically pops up in the WUWT solar threads where Leif Svalgaard for instance describes the solar magnetic field lines as if they are as real as physical ropes or strings.
Do any fields “exist” or are they just gradients of potentials, and is “field” just a kind of imagery to describe them?
A field is physics is space filled with aether and the strength of the field is the displacement of the aether from its rest position.
@Vince Causey
There was no Big Bang, and space is not “receding” anywhere.
Apparent expansion of the Universe (red shift) is a simple optical effect of curvature.
No, the far galaxies do not appear “younger” — they appear so blurred that we cannot see their structure yet, just because they are far away. Them being “younger” is an unsubstantiated myth.
If you accept as truth a cosmological theory that needs 11 dimensions as a least common denominator, creation out of nothing, intangible and unprovable dark matter, mysterious dark energy, conservation of energy, motion and inertia laws thrown out of the window, aether re-invented, and a particle that doesn’t exist (aptly named “God particle”), you accept a religious dogma, science has nothing to do with it.
If we are to believe that, indeed, Christmas Eve
Celebrates what, in fact, has been done,
Then the time of Big Bang we could certainly hang
Circa March twenty-fifth, zero one.
Funny that Dr. Leif Svalgaard doesn’t seem to understand that matter is energy, and vice versa. V. I. Lenin made the same mistake.
Field, as I understand it, is a radiating part of energy contained in a matter or in a particle that extends beyond the concentration of energy, which we call “matter” or “particle.” It is only the near-light-speed motion, translational or rotational, that converts energy into “matter.” In the absence of motion (at zero degrees K) all matter (atoms, particles) become waves (radiating energy). If all the energy contained in one human body in the form of rotating fields would be released, it would vaporize the whole Earth into plasma.
Aether and matter have mass.
Matter is condensations of aether.
Aether evaporates into matter.
When a nuclear bomb explodes matter evaporates into aether. The evaporation is energy. Mass is conserved.
Correction:
Matter evaporates into aether.
When a nuclear bomb explodes matter evaporates into aether. The evaporation is energy. Mass is conserved.
Alexander Feht;
“If you accept as truth a cosmological theory that needs 11 dimensions as a least common denominator, creation out of nothing, intangible and unprovable dark matter, mysterious dark energy, conservation of energy, motion and inertia laws thrown out of the window, aether re-invented, and a particle that doesn’t exist (aptly named “God particle”), you accept a religious dogma, science has nothing to do with it.”
I’ll deal with each point separately:
1) 11 dimensions. This relates to superstring theory and its veracity or otherwise has nothing to do with the origins or expansion of the universe.
2) Unprovable dark matter. A little background first: It has been observed that stars at the edge of galaxies are rotating at the same speed as those closer to the centre. But as objects orbit further and further out from the centre of a system, they should be orbiting more slowly (as do the planets in our solar system). The only explanation is that there must exist a framework of matter, and that because we cannot see it, must not interact with light. Therefore it was called dark matter.
What is your explanation for the anomalous rotation of galaxies?
3) Mysterious dark energy. Again, this is the result of observation. If the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, what could be causing this?
What is your explanation?
4) Conservation of energy, motion and inertia laws thrown out the window. Not sure what you mean here.
5) Aether re-invented. That was my original skepticism of the Higgs field.
6) A particle that doesn’t exist. May or may not exist. That is the whole point of the CERN experiment. If it does exist then that lends further support to the standard model. If not, then according to Peter Higgs, “I will no longer understand everything I thought I understood.
7) Creation out of nothing. You got me on that one.
8) Science has nothing to do with it. As all these theories are based on trying to fit observation into some kind of coherent model, I would say that science has a great deal to do with it. Arm waving it all away by calling it religious dogma, is not science either.
You also write: “There was no Big Bang, and space is not “receding” anywhere. Apparent expansion of the Universe (red shift) is a simple optical effect of curvature.”
Can you offer any reference to how this curvature creating the appearance of curvature? I’ve never heard of this hypothesis. Is it something you’ve made up on your own?
Oops!
Meant to say in last para above: Can you offer any reference to how this curvature creates the appearance of expansion.
Mike says:
December 14, 2011 at 12:21 am
‘NASA’s Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge’
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-402_AGU_Voyager.html
“Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back. … Like cars piling up at a clogged freeway off-ramp, the increased intensity of the magnetic field shows that inward pressure from interstellar space is compacting it.”
Aether physically occupies three dimensional space and is physically displaced by matter. The aether displaced by the solar system is pushing back and exerting pressure inward toward the solar system.
The pushing back and pressure exerted inward toward the solar system is evidence of the aether.
The pushing back and pressure exerted inward toward matter by aether displaced by matter is gravity.
This not in an expanding universe then? Could “outside” actually be outside of the universe as we know it? Just as there are molecules with attraction, perhaps our universe has ‘another’ acting on it, or, what appears to be ‘pushing back’ from a rigid boundary might be just our universe in another medium, like a something suspended in water.
Myrrh says:
December 15, 2011 at 6:25 pm
“This not in an expanding universe then? Could “outside” actually be outside of the universe as we know it? Just as there are molecules with attraction, perhaps our universe has ‘another’ acting on it, or, what appears to be ‘pushing back’ from a rigid boundary might be just our universe in another medium, like a something suspended in water.”
‘Was the universe born spinning?’
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/46688
“The universe was born spinning and continues to do so around a preferred axis”
The Universe spins around a preferred axis because the Universe is, or the local Universe we exist in is in, a jet; analogous to the polar jet of a black hole.
‘Mysterious Cosmic ‘Dark Flow’ Tracked Deeper into Universe’
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2010/10-023.html
‘The clusters appear to be moving along a line extending from our solar system toward Centaurus/Hydra, but the direction of this motion is less certain. Evidence indicates that the clusters are headed outward along this path, away from Earth, but the team cannot yet rule out the opposite flow. “We detect motion along this axis, but right now our data cannot state as strongly as we’d like whether the clusters are coming or going,” Kashlinsky said.’
The clusters are headed along this path because the Universe is, or the local Universe we exist in is in, a jet.
The following is an image analogous of the Universal jet.
http://aether.lbl.gov/image_all.html
The reason for the ‘expansion’ of the universe is the continual emission of aether into the Universal jet. Three dimensional space associated with the Universe itself is not expanding. What we see in our telescopes is the matter associated with the Universe moving outward and away from the Universal jet emission point. In the image above, ‘1st Stars’ is where the increase in pressure caused by the aether continually being emitted into the Universal jet causes the aether to condense into matter.
The following is an image analogous of the Universe, or the local Universe, we exist in.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/planetarium/graphics/st_images/BlackHole.jpg
The following is an image analogous of the Universal spin.
http://i.space.com/images/i/612/i02/040817_quasar_illo_02.jpg?1292259454
Dark flow is the aether emitted into and propagating through the Universal jet. Dark energy is the change in state of the aether emitted into and propagating through the Universal jet.
It’s not the Big Bang. It’s the Big Ongoing.
@Vince Causey;
I am a musician and a translator. I cannot impress you with long lists of links to published works in the rather diversified field of cosmology, or with hairy formulas. Nevertheless, I am able to think, and the fact that I am not infected by dogmas prevailing in today’s colleges and universities is rather a positive factor, since scientists are mere humans, and humans, as well as sheep and cattle, always follow the trail to the feeding trough.
1) 11 dimensions are now part of the newest Big Bang theory editions.
Fashionable new variations of the Big Bang theory (they are being pushed all over the place, even on TV) are based on the idea of “colliding branes” — that is, they are inseparable from the superstring juggling of formulas.
2) Unprovable dark matter. What is my explanation for the anomalous rotation of galaxies?
I don’t have a ready “explanation” for everything. I suspect that the pace of time changes depending on the quantity of mass present, and on the distance from that mass, and this “curvature of time” will serve as an explanation of the anomalous rotation of galaxies in the future. In any case, inventing an intangible “matter” that cannot be observed or registered using any instruments — just to explain something away — doesn’t count as an explanation.
3) Mysterious dark energy. If the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, what could be causing this?
It doesn’t. There is no “if” about it.
4) Conservation of energy, motion and inertia laws thrown out the window.
To postulate Big Bang, one has to forget about the most fundamental laws of physics.
5) Aether re-invented. Seems that we don’t have a disagreement on this point.
6) A particle that doesn’t exist. May or may not exist. That is the whole point of the CERN experiment. If it does exist then that lends further support to the standard model. If not, then according to Peter Higgs, “I will no longer understand everything I thought I understood.
7) Creation out of nothing. You got me on that one.
8) Science has nothing to do with it. It has been a long time since the Big Bang theory doesn’t fit observations. Recent discovery of a super-massive cluster of galaxies at the “edge of the visible Universe” where, supposedly, only smaller “young” galaxies could exist, is one more nail in the BBT coffin.
Apparent expansion of the Universe (red shift) is a simple effect of curvature.
David F. Crawford’s Curvature Cosmology, Segal’s Chronometric Cosmology, Fred Hoyle’s critique of the modern “consensus” in cosmology, recent rapid back-pedaling by Stephen Hawking on the validity of the BBT, and Mandelbrot’s rebuttal of Olson’s paradox could give you an idea about where, approximately, my thinking is coming from.
We don’t have yet (and may not have in out lifetime) a cosmological theory that fits all the observations. We have a smorgasbord of incomplete and imperfect theories, from which we are free to chose the one that, in our perception, is the closest to reality. The Big Bang theory is a dogmatic exercise in extrapolation of the anthropocentric, illogical, irrational, creationist basic principle.
Think about what Grigoriy Perelman said in one of his rare interviews:
“Of course, there are more or less honest people among mathematicians but almost all of them are conformists — that is, being more or less honest themselves, they are ready to tolerate dishonest ones. This is why violators of ethical standards don’t become outsiders in modern science. Instead, people like me are pushed into isolation.”
Mike says:
December 16, 2011 at 4:03 am
Myrrh says:
December 15, 2011 at 6:25 pm
“This not in an expanding universe then? Could “outside” actually be outside of the universe as we know it? Just as there are molecules with attraction, perhaps our universe has ‘another’ acting on it, or, what appears to be ‘pushing back’ from a rigid boundary might be just our universe in another medium, like a something suspended in water.”
Mike, thanks for all this information, I’m finding it quite fascinating. Don’t see how “preferred axis” correlates to the “jet” though, the ‘trumpet’.
What I’m getting from those descriptions is a flow back possibly simply an orbit around a central point. Wouldn’t that fit with the more right spinning as observed from the northern hemisphere and more left spinning observed from the southern? Could, also possibly account for the anomaly in the red shift, that younger galaxies being found further away and in an ‘expanding’ having blue shifts showing velocities towards us somehow overriding expanding away from us red shifts. I hope I’m explaining myself well enough, it’s very difficult to type, my keys have been hijacked again, and I’ve only just found that the big bang sets up empty space in the middle .. which seems very odd. Although like apples perhaps.
Not that I’ve got anything against trumpets, or a host of them dancing in the breeze, hmm, I think Imight try painting that one, but what is the ether being emitted from ?
What do you mean here? What is dark energy then? Is this the plasma that is said to have been at the beginning opaque to light?
Could the dark flow be the movement of a medium in which the clusters are orbitting/spinning around axis?
Myrrh says:
December 16, 2011 at 6:47 pm
“Could the dark flow be the movement of a medium in which the clusters are orbitting/spinning around axis?”
Yes dark flow is a medium in which clusters orbit and spin around axis. Dark flow is the state of the aether emitted into and propagating through the Universal jet.
There are a bunch of objects flowing downstream in a river. At the mouth of the river the objects move away from each other. Now spin the water and this is analogous to the Universal jet we exist in.
Just as a black hole continually emits what it pulls in into its jets the Universe continually pulls in what it emits into the Universal jet we exist in.
I don’t believe that space has substance even if you populate it with particles it is only the particles that have substance not space.We don’t observe space only visible light which are particles if we could alter the behavior of visible light then our perception of space and time would change .While space and time were thought to be absolute it was possible to think that space had substance but how do you give any substance to something that is relative. that is My ignorant and unscientific opinion anyway
Higgs? Bypass Singularity?
http://universe-life.com/2011/12/10/eotoe-embarrassingly-obvious-theory-of-everything/
E=Total[m(1 + D)] (D = distance travelled by mass since singularity)
The big bang did not create matter or antimatter. Singularity was all the energy-mass of the universe.
Matters and Antimatters are big-bang follow-up evolutionary, circumstantial-accidental expansion collision products.
At 10^-35 seconds since big bang, D was already a fraction of a second above zero. This is when gravity started. This is what started gravity. At this instance started the energy space texture, the straining of space texture, the space-texture-memory, gravity, that most probably will eventually overcome expansion and initiate impansion back to singularity, again.
Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com
Glad to see that the science at CERN and their scientists is consistent wtih the groundbreaking work and discipline of the majority of climate sceintists.
For those who have mentioned the CLOUD project which I find very interesting, can you direct me to a legtitimate study that shows how their initial findings correlate to observed conditions over the past several decades?