[lbo-talk] Darwinian evolution only part of story?

Les Schaffer schaffer at optonline.net
Thu Jan 28 13:54:59 PST 2010


On 1/28/2010 3:26 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> CERN is spending multiple billions of real money (euros) looking for
> the Higgs boojum--er, boson.

i shouldn't egg Shane on, but i can't help it: i heard through the grapevine that one of the Nobel laureates fears that LHC will ONLY find the Higgs and nothing else, and he conjectures this will put physicists in a very awkward position.

ahhh, he did go public:

"Many of us are terrified that the LHC will discover a Higgs

particle and nothing more," Weinberg said. That would just confirm

the standard model, which everybody believes already. It would not

point the way to further progress in solving a deeper problem that

physics faces---how to add gravity to the unified theory of the

other forces.

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2009/10/higgs-discovery-likely-at-lhc.html

Les



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