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The New Yorker: Is the Higgs Not So Big?

July 7th, 2012
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Econintersect:  Yesterday we had an extensive review of the Higgs boson detection announced by the team at the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) near Geneva.  One item that review missed was an important discussion written by Elizabeth Kolbert at The New… more »

Tags: cern, elementry particles, gold, higgs boson, john lounsbury, large hadron collider, lhc, standard model, subatomic particles, unified field theory

Which Boson Do You Work For?

July 6th, 2012
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Econintersect:  Okay, the play on words (boson, boss, bozo) is a rather far stretch, but since it is likely that 99% of the world doesn’t have the foggiest what a boson is we’ll go for it.  After all, it did attract your attention and got you to read thi… more »

Tags: bose, bosons, cern, einstein, fermi, fermions, god particle, higgs boson, john lounsbury, large hadron collider, particle spin, pauli, quantum state, standard model, subatomic particles