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Did the Higgs Boson Discovery Reveal that the Universe is Unnatural?
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 0:36
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We discovered the elusive Higgs boson last year, but it wasn’t exactly what we expected. According to some physicists, that means the universe itself isn’t quite what we thought either.
Over on the Simons Foundation website, Natalie Wolchover has a great introduction to this bizarre idea:
Is Nature Unnatural? Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make
sense.
On an overcast afternoon in late May, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist visiting from the Institute for Advanced Study in nearby Princeton, N.J.
With his dark, shoulder-length hair shoved behind his ears, Arkani-Hamed laid out the dual, seemingly contradictory implications of recent experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
“The universe is inevitable,” he declared. “The universe is impossible.”
“The universe is impossible,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, 41, of the Institute for Advanced Study, during a recent talk at Columbia University. (Photo: Natalie Wolchover/Simons Science News)
The spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012 confirmed a nearly 50-year-old theory of how elementary particles acquire mass, which enables them to form big structures such as galaxies and humans.
“The fact that it was seen more or less where we expected to find it is a triumph for experiment, it’s a triumph for theory, and it’s an indication that physics works,” Arkani-Hamed told the crowd.
However, in order for the Higgs boson to make sense with the mass (or equivalent energy) it was determined to have, the LHC needed to find a swarm of other particles, too. None turned up.
Is the universe natural or do we live in an atypical bubble in a multiverse? Recent results at the Large Hadron Collider have forced many physicists to confront the latter possibility. (Illustration: Giovanni Villadoro)
With the discovery of only one particle, the LHC experiments deepened a profound problem in physics that had been brewing for decades.
Modern equations seem to capture reality with breathtaking accuracy, correctly predicting the values of many constants of nature and the existence of particles like the Higgs.
Yet a few constants — including the mass of the Higgs boson — are exponentially different from what these trusted laws indicate they should be, in ways that would rule out any chance of life, unless the universe is shaped by inexplicable fine-tunings and cancellations.
or does it mean that “science” is just more “religion” because it’s based on FAITH and not fact?
Anonymous
Einsteins equation says E=mc2. The ‘E’ is energy. There is only one ingredient in the universe – energy. “In the beginning God said, ‘Let there be light’”. That’s the ‘E’ that we see, it’s the universe. Mass is just energy stopped in a ball, it’s light slowed down, but not really, its just circling itself and appears stopped, that the ‘m’ in the equation. “Oh how could it have been any different!” (The Apostle Paul).
Anonymous
Looks to me like they found the ‘fly in the ointment’. Could this anomaly be the indicator that nature has been contaminated with an artificial intelligence? That would explain the madness.
mutant_truth
You seem to be missing the fundamental difference between science and religion. Science exposes what we do not know something, and we accept that we do not know something, so we continue to gather information until we can pose intelligent possible answers. This is not the same thing as faith.
Religion takes unknowns and tries to fill in these gaps with supernatural beings who exercise direct control over the physical universe. This is faith: asserting complete answers without evidence.
Just because science can’t answer every question does not mean faith is the answer to every question. Indeed, the only real function of religion is to serve as a repository of cultural myths. For those of us involved in pursuing actual answers to physical questions, religion is merely a curious social phenomenon with very little importance.
or does it mean that “science” is just more “religion” because it’s based on FAITH and not fact?
Einsteins equation says E=mc2. The ‘E’ is energy. There is only one ingredient in the universe – energy. “In the beginning God said, ‘Let there be light’”. That’s the ‘E’ that we see, it’s the universe. Mass is just energy stopped in a ball, it’s light slowed down, but not really, its just circling itself and appears stopped, that the ‘m’ in the equation. “Oh how could it have been any different!” (The Apostle Paul).
Looks to me like they found the ‘fly in the ointment’. Could this anomaly be the indicator that nature has been contaminated with an artificial intelligence? That would explain the madness.
You seem to be missing the fundamental difference between science and religion. Science exposes what we do not know something, and we accept that we do not know something, so we continue to gather information until we can pose intelligent possible answers. This is not the same thing as faith.
Religion takes unknowns and tries to fill in these gaps with supernatural beings who exercise direct control over the physical universe. This is faith: asserting complete answers without evidence.
Just because science can’t answer every question does not mean faith is the answer to every question. Indeed, the only real function of religion is to serve as a repository of cultural myths. For those of us involved in pursuing actual answers to physical questions, religion is merely a curious social phenomenon with very little importance.