- If the Higgs is an infinite field with a local value of 246 GeV, where does this infinite energy come from?
- Why is the infinite energy of Higgs field necessary to create the smallest possible mass and for things to “simply exist”?
- Why does the Higgs field interact differently with different particles with masses?
- Where does the mass of neutrinos come from?
- How many fields exist in empty space?
- As two gluons can occupy the same space, why should they “interact” to create a Higgs Boson?
- How do we see colors in our dreams when our eyelids are closed and no light enters past them? If vision can happen without the eye or light, why should we correlate reality what is observable?
- How do we hear speech in our dreams when we sleep in a room with pin drop silence?
- How do we explain consciousness, out-of-body experiences, near death experiences, premonition?
- Explanations of dark matter, dark energy and why they predominate the known universe
- Can supersymmetry be proved?
- What type of experiments will need to be designed to prove matter is made of strings?
- What kind of computing power is needed to solve 13 dimensional string theory problems with possible 10^500 compactifications?
- What are the correct values for vacuum energy?
Tag: Science
Fields and reality
The world is really made out of fields. Sometimes the stuff of the universe looks like particles, due to the peculiarities of quantum mechanics, but deep down it’s really fields. Empty space isn’t as empty as it looks. At every point there is a rich collection of fields, each taking on some value or another—or more precisely, due to the uncertainty that accompanies quantum mechanics, a distribution of possible values we could potentially observe.
The fields themselves aren’t “made of” anything—fields are what the world is made of. We don’t know of any lower level of reality. (Maybe string theory, but that’s still hypothetical.) Magnetism is carried by a field, as are gravity and the nuclear forces. Even what we call “matter”—particles like electrons and protons—is really just a set of vibrating fields. The particle we call the “Higgs boson” is important, but not so much for its own sake; what matters is the Higgs field from which it springs, which plays a central role in how our universe works. Astounding indeed.
Sean Carroll, The particle at the end of the universe
Don’t look: waves. Look: particles.
The physicist John Wheeler once proposed a challenge: How can you best explain quantum mechanics in five words or fewer? In the modern world, it’s easy to get suggestions for any short-answer question: Simply ask Twitter, the microblogging service that limits posts to 140 characters. When I posed the question about quantum mechanics, the best answer was given by Aatish Bhatia (@ aatishb): “Don’t look: waves. Look: particles.” That’s quantum mechanics in a nutshell.
Sean Carroll, The particle at the end of the universe
Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan / Aphorism derived from Archeology
“As Terence McKenna observed, “Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing.”
Rupert Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation