04-07-2012, 09:12 AM
The only thing wrong in some of the explanations as to what the Higgs Boson is and its significance, are the referrences to the 'Big Bang'. I firmly believe, as do a growing number of scientists and astronomers, that there never was a 'Big Bang' and that was an attempt by astronomers and others to 'square' scientific theory with western religious dogma. For those interested, there is a film available on the internet called the Big Bang Never Happened and an alternative explanation that, IMHO, should in no way upset anyone's religious or philosophical underpinnings...and more accurately fits the scientific facts, physics, astrophysics and astronomy. But I digress....the likely find of the Higgs Boson is significant indeed. It is the particle/field [both] that gives mass [substance] to all in the universe. Thank goodness, no military applications are forseen with this discovery - it is purely scientific at this point.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass