On 10 Jul 2012, at 22:28, John Mikes wrote:
Stephen, a 'belief system' may be reassuring.
I spent a lifetime in active R&D exercising conventional science,
till I lost by belief in many figments of it. It came gradually like
one's losing a religious faith: trying to THINK 'outside the box'
and getting nowhere. (First reflection: I am poorly informed and my
conclusions are inaccurate).
Then the extension of our worldview into items still unknown, as
exemplified by the gradual enrichment in our epistemic inventory
over the millennia. We are NOT at the perfection's end...Some more
yet has got to come and I braced myself for surprises.
I cannot recall when and where, but allegedly prof. Higgs repealed
his work at his old age - how sorry it would be if true.
The observations upon which science is based supply only explained
information, accurate and complete to the level of the 'era'. Then
explanations are applied based on assumptions, presumptions, nth
level consequences of such and sometimes recalled/changed.
Bruno's and my agnosticism are based on some basic 'faith' to start
from: his from numerals, arithmetic (I think) mine from a never
learnable infinite complexity of which we only know a portion.
Which is the case for Arithmetic, note.
Everybody has a personal choice whether to include the Higgs boson
in his/her personal worldview. And there are many others...
If the boson of Higgs exists, by law, it *must* be retrievable from
addition and multiplication.
Bruno
John M
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Stephen P. King <[email protected]
> wrote:
Say that it is not so!
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428428/higgs-boson-may-be-an-imposter-say-particle/?ref=rss
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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