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

[Chuck Grimes]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 16:54 -0500, Les Schaffer wrote:
> 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

This is a very cool link. I listened to it yesterday and thought for
hours on it. Steven Weinberg is great lecturer, but man does he have
annoying habits, like not liking the microphone.

CG