It's hard to see how the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model can be avoided; the question is just what sort of field is responsible, and whether its quantum is an elementary particle or something more complicated.
There are some exotic ideas involving quantum gravity and string theory and such that supposedly imply that the associated particle doesn't exist, but I've never understood what those guys were talking about.
Oh, well, people have been bitching about the Higgs since day one, but no one's shown there isn't one and most people think it'll be discovered Real Soon Now.
Well despite the deep and relevant nature of your last few posts, I added you to my friends list just because there's some genuinely superficial and hilarious bits of writing in here. Let's try to keep it a bit more shallow in the future there buddy...now move along
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:58 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, wasn't the Higgs boson cast aside as a theory, or am i thinking of something else?
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Date: 2004-03-18 03:48 pm (UTC)There are some exotic ideas involving quantum gravity and string theory and such that supposedly imply that the associated particle doesn't exist, but I've never understood what those guys were talking about.
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