Bigger than the Higgs, bigger even than gravitational waves...
It looks like the LHC may have found a surprise massive particle that gives a glimpse into a better – and entirely unexpected – theory of reality.
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Has the LHC caught a glimpse of a new theory of reality?
Stuart Patience
IF IT is anything, it is what Gian Giudice has been waiting for his entire scientific life. "We are not talking about a confirmation of an established theory, but about opening a door into an unknown and unexplored world," says Giudice, a theoretical particle physicist based at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
That's if it turns out to be anything. At the moment, all we have are hints emerging from the debris of collisions within CERN's showpiece particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. But if those hints firm up in the course of the coming weeks and months, it could be the big one. Forget the Higgs, forget even gravitational waves: 2016 could go down as the year when a new picture of nature's fundamental workings was unveiled.
The hopes spring from two "bumps" that have appeared independently, in the same place, in the latest data from the LHC's two big detectors, ATLAS and CMS. They point to the existence of a particle that dwarfs even the Higgs boson, the giver-of-mass particle discovered at CERN in July 2012.
The Higgs was a milestone, but ultimately one that marked the end of a road. It was the last particle to be found of those predicted by the standard model of particle physics. This clutch of sophisticated equations matches every experimental result to date with exquisite precision, and explains the workings of three of the fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces ...
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078975-bigger-than-the-higgs-bigger-even-than-gravitational-waves/
Astro,
You can always find discoveries like this on other sites. No need to sign up etc.
The Higgs and ANY OTHER PARTICLE THEY DISCOVER are simply distortions in the primary medium, the ETHER. Professor Higss himself said that the Higgs is not a particle but simply a distortion in a field that pervades the universe, the Higgs Field. I can just see his brain working...trying to NOT call it the ETHER. That IS what is after all and THEY ALL KNOW IT. Just so ludicrous. All forces of nature are just different manifestations of the properties of the ETHER. All forces of nature are movement in or of the ETHER. There are geometries we cannot readily observe(we can only observe 3d with our normal senses) and some of the movement is faster than light(entanglement) and that is why it is not a normal intuitive process in understanding this. Everything is connected, the universe, all of space time is unified in the ETHER.
The 2004 Nobel Prize was awarded for work in understanding the Strong Force. Frank Wilczek was one of the receipients. He wrote a great book called The Lightness of Being, Mass Ether and the Unification of Forces. It is a great book and explains a lot of this. I admire him for his willingness and bravery to even use the word ETHER! The word ETHER has been verboten in physics for a long time. M His definition is a little different and he calls the the primary medium, or the primary ingredient the GRID.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/popular.html
http://frankwilczek.com/
A little bird told me that he has a copy of some TTB Brown work. :o
Cosmo