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THE ABSURD TIMES
A pictoral representation of the equation devised by Goins to finally arrive at a mathematical solution to the Higgs Boson -- what he called "The God-Damn" particle. I found it, of all places, after searching just about anywhere else, on Wikipedia. It has doubtless been revised and attacked, but that’s your problem.
God-damn
By
Czar
Donic
It is really getting far too weird for me, so I’m going to start with something else than usual.
Recently, someone quoted Stephen Hawkings as saying there was no God to create the universe. Well, it is true, but it takes awhile to get there and, believe me, I’ve simplified this as much as possible. The math is out and the ideas, still debated, and pared down to the point that we are discussing an Alpha-Romeo by seeing one of its tires. Still, I hope I’ve been able to get across how far the God Squad has to go to establish a viable alternative as to the origin of the universe(s). It is mind-stretching.
We
have to start with the Higgs Boson, sometimes called the “God” particle. Well,
lets get rid of that idea first. It
come from some physisist/mathemetician (the boundaries have not existed for
decades now) who was assigned to work on it and he got so frustrated with the
mathematics of it that he called it ‘THE GODDAMN PARTICLE”. So, sorry, there is
no real metaphysical significance to that term, (one would suppose).
It’s
value is that is is the particle that gives mass to all the other subatomic
particles, starting with hydrogen for that had been missing since the 50s at
least. Finally, they were able to find
it a CERN (still the one superconductingsupercollider of distinction). Gerogie Bush wanted to build an even bigger
one, but would listen to nobody with any knowledge and tried to build it in
TEXAS (of course). Well, ants kept eating it, so it never really got
built. (But I digress).
So,
where does the string theory come into this? Well, before anything else, at the
big bang, these strings, not particles, came out and each represented a
dimension. The Higgs particle/space generates 30 dimensions in itself. However, there are other particles and
theories, each with their own plethora of dimensions. The easiest to wrap your
mind around (you still there? Ok.) is the idea of a two dimensional model that
combines all the dimensions but requires a mirror to be understood. (Don’t ask
me, I was lost about 2/3rds of the way through this.) This gives rise to plausible idea of multi-verses. I’ll just stick with out own and focus on
earth. That’s enough for me.
All
of our ideas, theories, beliefs, etc., depend upon some sort of cause and
effect, and that requires the dimension of time. I started out as Physics
Major in college and had read a great deal about relativity, thought
experiments, nuclear reactions, and so forth, but such topics were never even
considered in the official classes we took.
All of them, without exception, seemed to be designed for the education
of civil engineers. The focus was on Newtonian mechanics with a bit of newer
ideas thrown in, but nothing beyond electricity (which they were still debating
as to whether is traveled in waves or particles) and related topics. Gauss and
then Maxwell seemed to be the most abstract thinkers they could follow – and I
mean the "Professors".
I
remember very vividly once, having heard of the activity of the hyperon where
the reaction took place a micro nano second before the action and was eager for
direction on where to search for more information. I raised the question in class and was answered with “when we
want to be talking about that stuff, we should all be wearing along beards!” He
chuckled, hoping for a class agreement and was greeted with yawns. Such was the intellectual climate. I also
had trouble in a mathematics class because I used a novel solution (I thought)
to a Calculus problem and nearly flunked for the sin of reading ahead to the
next semester. Naturally, I hadn’t and it was the first time I had ever been
attacked for actually reading anything in these textbooks before I absolutely
had to and the only thing that kept me awake was looking for spelling errors or
omissions of proper exponents. It was
also the last. (I think I had suddenly, with no reasoning at all, applied what
was known as “L’Hospital’s Rule, a clever rearrangement of sine and
cosine.) Never mind. At least this is more intriguing than
thinking about Donald Trump.
Anyway,
now we have the background. The concept of a God or “Creator" relies on
our experience in the four, or two, dimensions we confine ourselves to, all of
them not in existence until AFTER the big bang. Using the dimensions that we
are able to detect and in which we live, we have developed a prejudice in favor
of cause and effect, and this idea depends on these dimensions. Essentially, it
states tha one thing causes another and that means one thing happened before
another, and the relies on the dimension of time. Space is another dimension, although we usually divide it into
three, length, height, and width. In
any case, none of this happened before the dimensions emerged, and the idea of
cause and effect only makes use of two or three of them. Thus a “creator"
is a ludicrous concept.
So, the Senate Republicans want to confirm
someone to make sure that healthcare is more expensive, skip the idea of
helping those who are out of work as a result of our mishandling of Covid, and
make sure that the current occupant remains in the White House, eh? Let’s have
a good laugh at that one! Then realize
tat a majority of our population is stupid enough to vote for him. Talk about String Theory being a puzzle.
Here are a few simplified statements regarding our discussion:
The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field,[8][9] one of the fields in particle physics theory.[9] It is named after physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964, along with five other scientists, proposed the Higgs mechanism to explain why particles have mass. This mechanism implies the existence of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson was initially discovered as a new particle in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations based on collisions in the LHC at CERN, and the new particle was subsequently confirmed to match the expected properties of a Higgs boson over the following years.
String Theory
String theory began as bosonic string theory, whose 26
dimensions act as many fewer. Yet this modeled only bosons,
which are energy particles, while omitting fermions,
which are matter particles. So bosonic string theory could not explain matter.
Yet by adding supersymmetry to bosonic string theory, fermions were achieved,
and string theory became superstring theory, explaining matter, too.
(In versions of quantum field theory that include supersymmetry (SUSY), each boson has a corresponding fermion, and vice versa. That is, each energy particle has a corresponding matter particle, and each matter particle has a corresponding energy particle, yet the unobservable partner is more massive and thus super. These superpartners might seem an extravagant prediction, yet many theorists and experimentalists favor supersymmetric versions of the Standard Model, whose equations must otherwise be tweaked extravagantly and sometimes arbitrarily to maintain predictive success or mathematical consistency, but with the superpartners align.
It seems as if some of the devotees of the Abrahamic Religions felt left out, So I conclude with a quote from one of their favorite books, in fact the Bible of the Judeo-Christian ones:
"I saw a pale horse and a pale rider upon it.
And the name of the horse was Pestilence,
And the name of the rider was death."
So now everyone is is happy?
[I may add more as new issues concerning this arise, but I have not heard from any pantheists or Buddhists yet.
