A Higgs Bosun Propaganda Primer, or: How To Spin the Higgs

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This is a truly Orwellian way to inculcate obeisance to the "standard theory"


An excerpt from the article--

It’s going to happen. Someone in your class is going to bring up the Higgs announcement. This is great, it is the start of a discussion that the students started. But what should you talk about?

First some resources. Here are some pretty good links discussing the whole Higgs thing. Some of these are more detailed than others, but they are all nice in their own way.

Cosmic Variance: Higgs 101
Starts With a BANG!: The Biggest Firework of them all: The Higgs!
Quantum Diaries: New baby boson is born, weighing in at about 126 GeV
Galileo’s Pendulum: Higgsdependence Day!
Wired Science: Newly Discovered Particle Appears to Be Long-Awaited Higgs Boson

But how would you explain the Higgs to students – especially non-science majors. First, what do you call it? Hint: don’t call it the God Particle – that isn’t in style anymore. Also, I don’t like saying Higgs Particle – I prefer Higgs Boson or Higgs Field. But really, all of these are fine. Second, what do you say? If I had to say something that students could understand, I would say it is an expected piece of the Standard Model. That is a terrible answer and doesn’t lead to any understanding, but it is true.
The Periodic Table and the Standard Model

I hate to say this, but this Higgs stuff is complicated – especially for non science majors. You can’t talk about bosons when they have trouble understanding the difference between a molecule and an atom. I don’t mean that as a slam on students. The difference between two things that you can’t see is a tough thing.

What is the Standard Model anyway? Perhaps a good analogy is the periodic table.


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It just continues from there- Wish I could see them publish an article on the redshift discoveries that render so many of their pillars of logic into dust instead of strangely misleading confidence in their standard theory (increasingly full of holes.)

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Here'sanother fantasy-laden whopper of an "explanation"

"Long story short, the Big Bang happened and for the first trillionth of a second everything was flying around at the speed of light and had no order. There was all this matter in the universe but none of it had any mass. Then the Higgs Bosun turned on and physics and mass (and in turn gravity) started working together. Without this particle which people have suspected existed for years, nothing would be in existence as we know it. So if this was wrong (they didn't find it), it would mean physics as we know it today was on the wrong track. There are a ton of implications here too. This unknown particle is partly responsible for why the universe and nature are the way that they are.

This is verbal diarrhea of the first order.

What outrageous ignorance...spoken as FACT.