@MarcelDykstra: This is actually described with the well known analogy for the Higgs-field. The one where fundamental particles are like people traversing a room filled with curious journalists. Where president Obama (heavy particle) finds more interaction with the journalists (Higgs-field) then any ordinary person (light particle) would do. In this analogy a Higgs-boson would just be a rumor spreading the room. The journalist would just flock together (local excitation of the Higgs-field).
The Higgs-field and aether was occupying my mind today. After searching it seemed to me the Lagrangian for the Higgs-field is constructed to be a Lorentz invariant field. A great relieve to know. Only to question how CERN can be looking for something called the Higgs-boson. If the Higgs-field constitutes of real particles, having quantized energy, how can it be Lorentz invariant? Somebody in the audience can explain?
After spending ten billion dollars on LHC to find evidence for the higgs field and then become excited about the idea that the higgs field is akin to the aether--a nonexistent vaporware that is needed to confirm the standard textbook model? What they should have been doing is what I have been doing for the last 30 years full time with my own funding: Question the text book model. Find its contradictions and then try to resolve them.
@MarcelDykstra: This is actually described with the well known analogy for the Higgs-field. The one where fundamental particles are like people traversing a room filled with curious journalists. Where president Obama (heavy particle) finds more interaction with the journalists (Higgs-field) then any ordinary person (light particle) would do. In this analogy a Higgs-boson would just be a rumor spreading the room. The journalist would just flock together (local excitation of the Higgs-field).
MarcelDykstra 3 weeks ago
The Higgs-field and aether was occupying my mind today. After searching it seemed to me the Lagrangian for the Higgs-field is constructed to be a Lorentz invariant field. A great relieve to know. Only to question how CERN can be looking for something called the Higgs-boson. If the Higgs-field constitutes of real particles, having quantized energy, how can it be Lorentz invariant? Somebody in the audience can explain?
MarcelDykstra 1 month ago
After spending ten billion dollars on LHC to find evidence for the higgs field and then become excited about the idea that the higgs field is akin to the aether--a nonexistent vaporware that is needed to confirm the standard textbook model? What they should have been doing is what I have been doing for the last 30 years full time with my own funding: Question the text book model. Find its contradictions and then try to resolve them.
pbfred1 1 year ago
Nice. What's the equation on his shirt? His best guess at a T.O.E.? Something with a tensor, a wave function ....
dillon1957 1 year ago
@dillon1957 It is the Lagrangian of the standard model. You can buy the t-shirt at the CERN reception
thefederator 1 year ago