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		By: Leonardo Rubino		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/14/why-do-they-call-higgs-boson-t/#comment-510335</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonardo Rubino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Greg,

you&#039;re going well with your interesting opinions. Go on like this and do not worry about all those who are always ready to criticize all what you say in all your blogs. I see that you are one of those very few people who can and want to write what he thinks, and not what he must.

Many theoretical &quot;physicists&quot;, all over the world, have been able to applaud the news on superluminal neutrinos!!!!!!! 
Many others didn&#039;t applaud, but they didn&#039;t keep their distance, either!!! 
Besides, many blogs can prove I didn&#039;t do that, but I immediately attacked that news... 

As you already know, ONE CANNOT PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE that, just yesterday, many researchers and theoreticians told us two and two is nine; I’m talking about the story of superluminal neutrinos, later corrected.
That news shouldn’t even have been proposed and all those who learnt with passion even just some rudiments of relativity and electromagnetism, should immediately keep far; on the contrary, many eminent scientists didn’t do that, but welcomed.
It seems that there is, in the air, a great need of private lessons on basic physics (basic electromagnetism and basic relativity) for many official physicists and researchers, all over the world. 

On the basis of that, read my whole opinion, with all the mathematical and physical easy explanations, at the following link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99445788/Anything-but-Superluminal-Neutrinos-and-Divine-Bosons

And just to put further irons in the fire, what to say about the dying and unjustifiable dark matter?

Finally, what to say about the recent news on the Higgs boson, now found: first of all, the scientific environment from which that news comes from is the same one, again. Furthermore, this kind of announcements have got a behaviour in common: they all diverge, instead of converging to a point of common deep knowledge of the Universe. In fact, such a boson just apparently brings an answer to us (on what it would do), but, at the same time, it also brings another half a dozen of new questions (on what it really is and on how it would do what they say it does).
According to the above comments, it&#039;s not so clear, in people&#039;s mind, what mass is exactly given by such a Higgs boson. In my opinion, it&#039;s because the whole environment and the whole subject are not so clear...
By summing it up a bit, Higgs boson would give a mass to other particles, through the friction among them and the Higgs’ field!
It’s like if there is a guy, whose name is Anthony (and I don’t know him) and after long researches and investigations I’m told that Anthony has been introduced to Jennifer by Josephine, through Michael. And so, now, I still don’t know Anthony, but not only: from now on, I do not know also Jennifer, Josephine and Michael…
In fact, the echo of the news on the Higgs’ boson has not yet faded out and there is already who has (re)started to hunt the superhiggs, in environments with 43 dimensions!
And the story goes on...

Thank you for your attention.

Cordiality.

Regards.

Leonardo Rubino.
leonrubino@yahoo.it]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Greg,</p>
<p>you&#8217;re going well with your interesting opinions. Go on like this and do not worry about all those who are always ready to criticize all what you say in all your blogs. I see that you are one of those very few people who can and want to write what he thinks, and not what he must.</p>
<p>Many theoretical &#8220;physicists&#8221;, all over the world, have been able to applaud the news on superluminal neutrinos!!!!!!!<br />
Many others didn&#8217;t applaud, but they didn&#8217;t keep their distance, either!!!<br />
Besides, many blogs can prove I didn&#8217;t do that, but I immediately attacked that news&#8230; </p>
<p>As you already know, ONE CANNOT PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE that, just yesterday, many researchers and theoreticians told us two and two is nine; I’m talking about the story of superluminal neutrinos, later corrected.<br />
That news shouldn’t even have been proposed and all those who learnt with passion even just some rudiments of relativity and electromagnetism, should immediately keep far; on the contrary, many eminent scientists didn’t do that, but welcomed.<br />
It seems that there is, in the air, a great need of private lessons on basic physics (basic electromagnetism and basic relativity) for many official physicists and researchers, all over the world. </p>
<p>On the basis of that, read my whole opinion, with all the mathematical and physical easy explanations, at the following link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/99445788/Anything-but-Superluminal-Neutrinos-and-Divine-Bosons" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.scribd.com/doc/99445788/Anything-but-Superluminal-Neutrinos-and-Divine-Bosons</a></p>
<p>And just to put further irons in the fire, what to say about the dying and unjustifiable dark matter?</p>
<p>Finally, what to say about the recent news on the Higgs boson, now found: first of all, the scientific environment from which that news comes from is the same one, again. Furthermore, this kind of announcements have got a behaviour in common: they all diverge, instead of converging to a point of common deep knowledge of the Universe. In fact, such a boson just apparently brings an answer to us (on what it would do), but, at the same time, it also brings another half a dozen of new questions (on what it really is and on how it would do what they say it does).<br />
According to the above comments, it&#8217;s not so clear, in people&#8217;s mind, what mass is exactly given by such a Higgs boson. In my opinion, it&#8217;s because the whole environment and the whole subject are not so clear&#8230;<br />
By summing it up a bit, Higgs boson would give a mass to other particles, through the friction among them and the Higgs’ field!<br />
It’s like if there is a guy, whose name is Anthony (and I don’t know him) and after long researches and investigations I’m told that Anthony has been introduced to Jennifer by Josephine, through Michael. And so, now, I still don’t know Anthony, but not only: from now on, I do not know also Jennifer, Josephine and Michael…<br />
In fact, the echo of the news on the Higgs’ boson has not yet faded out and there is already who has (re)started to hunt the superhiggs, in environments with 43 dimensions!<br />
And the story goes on&#8230;</p>
<p>Thank you for your attention.</p>
<p>Cordiality.</p>
<p>Regards.</p>
<p>Leonardo Rubino.<br />
<a href="mailto:leonrubino@yahoo.it">leonrubino@yahoo.it</a></p>
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		By: ryno		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To Bee: The &quot;Higgs field&quot; is plural. Its like refering to a deer (single) or many deer (plural). Ive never heard it called a Higg bozon.  Whats so great about this search is it is truely &quot;unknown&quot;. The model will fall apart is the higgs cannot be found/detected and its a wonderful waiting game. Personally, I think some quarks (top, bottom) could be broken up as well, but that wont be humanly possible for another couple centuries.  I think the &quot;God Particle&quot; is an appropriate title seeing how it seems to have a mind of its own, whatever it is. The further we dig down, the more proof will be discovered that we are of intelligent design. Whoever he is, &quot;God&quot; is truely amazing!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Bee: The &#8220;Higgs field&#8221; is plural. Its like refering to a deer (single) or many deer (plural). Ive never heard it called a Higg bozon.  Whats so great about this search is it is truely &#8220;unknown&#8221;. The model will fall apart is the higgs cannot be found/detected and its a wonderful waiting game. Personally, I think some quarks (top, bottom) could be broken up as well, but that wont be humanly possible for another couple centuries.  I think the &#8220;God Particle&#8221; is an appropriate title seeing how it seems to have a mind of its own, whatever it is. The further we dig down, the more proof will be discovered that we are of intelligent design. Whoever he is, &#8220;God&#8221; is truely amazing!</p>
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		By: Ericthered		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ericthered]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the post. Interesting stuff. 

I got the joke and thought it was pretty funny, too.

Eric]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the post. Interesting stuff. </p>
<p>I got the joke and thought it was pretty funny, too.</p>
<p>Eric</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Duane, my understanding is that there are versions of the &quot;standard model&quot; in which the Higgs could be left out.  But that is beside the point.

My remark was a joke, and a rather funny one if I may say so myself.  

If the Higgs Particle does not exist, then it can be called &#039;The God Particle&quot; because neither does God. Exist, that is.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Duane, my understanding is that there are versions of the &#8220;standard model&#8221; in which the Higgs could be left out.  But that is beside the point.</p>
<p>My remark was a joke, and a rather funny one if I may say so myself.  </p>
<p>If the Higgs Particle does not exist, then it can be called &#8216;The God Particle&#8221; because neither does God. Exist, that is.</p>
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		By: DuaneBidoux		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DuaneBidoux]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr. Laden,

At the end you write, and I quote: Let&#039;s try to remember to not call this thing the &quot;God Particle&quot; for now. The damn thing may, after all, exist. If later it proves not to, then fine. 

If I understand correctly to not find this particle will pretty much mean that our overall assumptions about how the universe fundamentally works will be incorrect.  I dare say there are a number of physicist who would not consider it fine if this happens.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Laden,</p>
<p>At the end you write, and I quote: Let&#8217;s try to remember to not call this thing the &#8220;God Particle&#8221; for now. The damn thing may, after all, exist. If later it proves not to, then fine. </p>
<p>If I understand correctly to not find this particle will pretty much mean that our overall assumptions about how the universe fundamentally works will be incorrect.  I dare say there are a number of physicist who would not consider it fine if this happens.</p>
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		By: LeftWingFox		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LeftWingFox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[physicists-blog-comments-cat-fight!

SchrÃ¶dinger&#039;s cat-fight. Where the participants are simultaneously winners and losers depending on the observer. ]]></description>
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<p>SchrÃ¶dinger&#8217;s cat-fight. Where the participants are simultaneously winners and losers depending on the observer. </p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sascha, I am not describing an aether theory.  I am trying out an analogy that could be useful in understanding this concept for the lay person.  

I appreciate your suggestion regarding mass.  

I&#039;ll tell you what.  Suggest the end of the following sentence: 

&quot;One of the bosons is the Higgs boson, which comes from the &quot;Higgs field&quot; and provides our collage with ... &quot;

I&#039;ll be happy to change it to something better. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sascha, I am not describing an aether theory.  I am trying out an analogy that could be useful in understanding this concept for the lay person.  </p>
<p>I appreciate your suggestion regarding mass.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what.  Suggest the end of the following sentence: </p>
<p>&#8220;One of the bosons is the Higgs boson, which comes from the &#8220;Higgs field&#8221; and provides our collage with &#8230; &#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be happy to change it to something better. </p>
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		By: Sascha Vongehr		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sascha Vongehr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greg, for somebody who tells others to improve their English you have surprisingly little reading comprehension. Seems just because I did not agree with you once, you have your pants all up in a knot. You also apparently forgot the praise I gave you on some of your articles where you talk about stuff you understand.
Anyway: What you are describing is an aether theory (even if you do not know the difference to modern field theory) and the relation you make to mass and Higgs is simply wrong and very misleading indeed. Though you won&#039;t want to get into the details, it should perhaps be already enough to consider that practically 100% of your mass is not generated by Higgs! Somebody who is not falling for the usual hype in other fields like nuclear energy of anthropology should perhaps not becoming insulting against somebody else who tries pretty much the same in a different field?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg, for somebody who tells others to improve their English you have surprisingly little reading comprehension. Seems just because I did not agree with you once, you have your pants all up in a knot. You also apparently forgot the praise I gave you on some of your articles where you talk about stuff you understand.<br />
Anyway: What you are describing is an aether theory (even if you do not know the difference to modern field theory) and the relation you make to mass and Higgs is simply wrong and very misleading indeed. Though you won&#8217;t want to get into the details, it should perhaps be already enough to consider that practically 100% of your mass is not generated by Higgs! Somebody who is not falling for the usual hype in other fields like nuclear energy of anthropology should perhaps not becoming insulting against somebody else who tries pretty much the same in a different field?</p>
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		By: josh		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[josh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bee is correct that no one in physics uses the term &quot;god-particle&quot; except perhaps ironically. Sascha is technically correct that most observed mass in everyday objects comes from binding energy, but physicists regularly refer to the Higgs as giving mass to other fundamental particles (not just fermions) since rest mass is what is commonly meant when talking about fundamental particles.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bee is correct that no one in physics uses the term &#8220;god-particle&#8221; except perhaps ironically. Sascha is technically correct that most observed mass in everyday objects comes from binding energy, but physicists regularly refer to the Higgs as giving mass to other fundamental particles (not just fermions) since rest mass is what is commonly meant when talking about fundamental particles.</p>
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		By: essential-intelligence		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/14/why-do-they-call-higgs-boson-t/#comment-510326</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[essential-intelligence]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See our latest article to understand why this hype about the so called &quot;god particle&quot; is hogwash:

http://essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/12/globalist-war-on-science-approaches.html
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See our latest article to understand why this hype about the so called &#8220;god particle&#8221; is hogwash:</p>
<p><a href="http://essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/12/globalist-war-on-science-approaches.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/12/globalist-war-on-science-approaches.html</a></p>
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