"The Higgs Paradox" --Quantum-Level Discovery Fails to Solve Large-Scale Cosmic Mysteries
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July 02, 2014





The Higgs boson is a cornerstone of the Standard Model, a theory developed in the early 1970s to explain the five percent of the Universe composed of visible matter and energy, all carried by fundamental particles. Now, two years after making history by unearthing the Higgs boson, the particle that confers mass, physicists are broadening their probe into its identity, hoping this will also solve other great cosmic mysteries. The better they become acquainted with the Higgs at the infinitely small quantum level, the further the experts seem from explaining certain cosmic-scale questions, like dark matter.

"The observed characteristics of the Higgs boson, such as its mass, interaction strengths and life-time, provide very powerful constraints on our understanding of the more fundamental theory," Valya Khoze, director of the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University, told AFP (PARIS).

From next year, scientists will smash sub-atomic particles at ever higher-speeds in the upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, which announced the Higgs discovery on July 4, 2012. Not only will they hope for new particles to emerge, but also for the Higgs to show signs of, well, weirdness.So far, the Higgs has conformed well to the traits predicted in the Standard Model of particle physics, the mainstream theory of how our Universe is constructed.

The model has weaknesses in that it doesn't explain dark matter or dark energy, which jointly make up 95 percent of the Universe. Nor is it compatible with the theory of gravity. Scientists have proposed alternative theories to explain the inconsistencies -- like supersymmetry which postulates the existence of a "sibling" for every particle in the Universe and may explain dark matter and dark energy.

No proof of such symmetric particles has been found at the LHC, currently in sleep mode for an 18-month overhaul to super-boost its power levels.

Supersymmetry, additionally, predicts the existence of at least five types of Higgs boson, and physicists will thus be watching the LHC Higgs closely for signs of behaviour inconsistent with the Standard Model. "It would give us a very good hint that there is physics there beyond the Standard Model and that there's new, additional physics coming soon," said Dave Charlton, who heads the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, a facility of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) which celebrated its 60th anniversary on Tuesday. "It could help to explain many of the other problems we have in physics at the moment," he added.

For starters, they don't understand how it [the Higgs Boson] can have such a small mass. Nor is the evidence consistent for the role it played in the development of the early Universe after the Big Bang -- issues that may be resolved by so-called New Physics the experts hope will follow soon.

When the LHC fires up again next year, scientists will be on the lookout for new particles, including other types of Higgs, and possible "invisible decays" of the boson to indicate the presence of dark matter.

"All of the particles of the Standard Model have now been discovered," said Charlton."If we see new particles, it's something new... if we see new particles, it will point to something whether it is supersymmetry or some other new theory. "It will tell us that the Standard Model is broken, that there is something else."

Charlton said we may never know if the Higgs found at the LHC was exactly the Standard Model version or something that just resembles it.

Themis Bowcock, particle physics head at the University of Liverpool, said confirmation of several Standard Model predictions over the past two years have placed a new focus on what is not yet known. "It allows us to step back and view the boundaries of our knowledge with a keener eye," he told AFP. "We realise we have mastered our closest and most obvious challenges, but like a 15th century navigator we are motivated to venture beyond our mapped lands to discover the missing 95 percent -- the New World."

In the summer of 2012, scientists hailed the announcement of the Higgs discovery, speculating that it could one day make light speed travel possible by "un-massing" objects or allow huge items to be launched into space by "switching off" the Higgs.* CERN scientist Albert de Roeck likened it to the discovery of electricity, when he said humanity could never have imagined its future applications.

"What's really important for the Higgs is that it explains how the world could be the way that it is in the first millionth of a second in the Big Bang," de Roeck told AFP.* "Can we apply it to something? At this moment my imagination is too small to do that."

Physicist Ray Volkas said "almost everybody" was hoping that, rather than fitting the so-called Standard Model of physics -- a theory explaining how particles fit together in the Universe -- the Higgs boson would prove to be "something a bit different".

"If that was the case that would point to all sorts of new physics, physics that might have something to do with dark matter," he said, referring to the hypothetical invisible matter thought to make up much of the universe.


"That would have really fantastic implications for understanding all of the matter in the universe, not just ordinary atoms," he added.* De Roeck said scrutinising the new particle and determining whether it supported something other than the Standard Model would be the next step for CERN scientists.


The LHC went offline for a two-year refit in December, 2012 that will see its firepower doubled to 14 trillion electronvolts -- a huge step forward in the search for new particles and clues about what holds them all together. De Roeck said he would find it a "little boring at the end if it turns out that this is just the Standard Model Higgs".

Instead, he was hoping it would be a "gateway or a portal to new physics, to new theories which are actually running nature" such as supersymmetry, which hypothesises that there are five different Higgs particles governing mass.

The existence of the Higgs boson was predicted in 1964 and it is named after the British physicist Peter Higgs. It is the last piece of the puzzle that has been missing from the Standard Model of physics and its function is to give other elementary particles their mass. According to the theory, the so-called Higgs field extends throughout the entire universe. The mass of individual elementary particles is determined by the extent to which they interact with the Higgs bosons.

On the one hand, the Higgs particle is the last component missing from the Standard Model of particle physics. On the other hand, physicists are struggling to understand the detected mass of the Higgs boson. "Using our theory as it currently stands, the mass of the Higgs boson can only be explained as the result of a random fine-tuning of the physical constants of the universe at a level of accuracy of one in one quadrillion," explained Matthias Neubert, of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).

The Daily Galaxy via AFP (PARIS), CMS, and CERN

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Standard Higgs and sterile neutrinos the universe is startin to look a little boring!

Its okay using controlled experiments at the LHC in a confined structured way but deep in space no such the highs boson/field could possibly exist.matter,particles including sub atomic ones are too far apart to have any influence upon each other.and there is no such thing as dark matter.

"Random fine tuning" sounds a bit contradictory. The fine tuning implies somebody tuned it to work, a universe-creator intelligence outside of our universe, that can choose the "accuracy of one in one quadrillion" knowing the effects.

On the other hand "random" implies phenomenon and events creating the right combination by chance, and although one in one quadrillion seem to small to be probable, by multiplying with unlimited time bound and phenomenon outside our universe make it be plausible.

A third view that get's more ground lately, is that universes evolved (child universes span out of parents universes Alan Guth, or universe bounced few times until stabilized)

If he is a deist/agnostic (not a theist as Genesis conflict cosmic observations) then should had use just Fine Tuning. If he is an atheist then should had used evolved(inflation, bouncing) or randomly formed(Anthropic landscape).

The simplify the universe birth to the extreme the list of origin events and precursors that could probably be as following: humans > homo sapiens > Homo habilis, Homo erectus > Hominidae > primates (Altiatlasius, Paleocene-Eocene) > mammals (Morganucodon, Yanoconodon) > reptiles (Proterogyrinus,Solenodonsaurus) > amphibians (Hynerpeton, Tulerpeton ) > proto-amphibians (Pikaia, Haikouichthys, Arandaspis ) > animals with nervous system (Alalcomenaeus, Megacheirans, Nautiloids fossils) > bilaterians (Kimberella ) > multicellular life (Ediacara biota ) > complex cells (filamentous algae, red algae ) > simple cells (prokaryotes) > bacteria and viruses > RNA world > TNA world > earth and sollar system formation > biology laws > organic molecules (space) > supernova > heavy elements > stars > hydrogen / helium > chemistry laws > particle recombination > stable nuclei > protons > quarks > super heavy particles > quantum fluctuations > gravitational, strong, and electroweak forces > spacetime and matter separate > one fundamental force > plank unit of space-time is expanding > energy of 10^32 kelvin is applied on a plank unit.

All equations and laws of the universe might end up being dependent only on the amount of energy sparked initially in that single plank unit. If there was a different energy quantity, we had another universe with different laws, no planets, no atoms, no humans but the mathematics laws would still be valid.

Mathematics show that patterns will always rise from chaos and even in alternative universes, with different laws, might be possible for life and intelligence to emerge, provided the amounts of environments variations and entropy is sufficiently large. Entropy is a prerequisite for life and not barrier against it.


The headline of "The Higgs Paradox" --Quantum-Level Discovery Fails to Solve Large-Scale Cosmic Mysteries"

Really says it all, doesn´t it?

Of course it is so. Stirring in CERN on lesser and lesser amounts of splits particles only gives more and more "emptyness" and no one can explain everything large by studing almost nothing on the small scale, where all the other atoms are missing an all the other fundamental forces and their qualities is completely excluded from the weak and unexpainable gravity theory in the experiments.

Read of some logical discussions and solutions here http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15113&p=97183#p97183

Natural Philosopher
Ivar Nielsen
(Username "Native" in the linked discussions)

The fine tuning is perfectly explained in biocentrism


With all due respect to medical doctor Robert Lanza for his cells research, on his hypotheses of biocentrism I think he's gone too far off the plantation: "life creates the universe rather than the other way around", if we look at something the universe exist, if we close our eyes the universe disappear. I thought the self centered religious concept that the universe was made for us was the most egocentric thing, but I was wrong, this is far beyond that.

Lanza has said that he intends to publish aspects of biocentrism in peer-reviewed scientific journals, good luck with that and proving that universe doesn't exist until a redneck schmuck from Alabama look at his cornfield ...

In the double split experiment, the fact that light behaves differently if we look at it or not, have to do with how we look at it and how we measure it with another light, which interfere with it, but doesn't mean things happen differently if we look or not. We are changing the course of events because we look at it, and not the events are changing because we look at it ... small semantics, huge implications difference

The universe was here before life and humans even appeared on this planet; even the light from other galaxies is been on its path longer that humans existed. Things happen in the universe where there's no human presence to notice it, and it will happen no other way regardless of us.

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