The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening—after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland—into the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physics—all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.
Deliberate and creepy, "this taps into genuine human traits like fear, greed, and stupidity. Never an ordinary girl, Egypt learned the hard way that life, even when it is being kind, is a bastard. A survivor, she did what she needed to make it from day-to-day. And it turned out she was good at it. Better than good. Egypt grew into an extraordinary woman, cold, ruthless, a killer at heart, and New York witnessed her metamorphosis from that innocent child to the most feared assassin of the age.
The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b metaphysical or magical in essence.
Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent things that have no perceivable qualities, on the grounds that they 'must' be there because otherwise their preconceptions are wrong or their sums don't work; that, from a psychological perspective, contemporary theory in particle physics has the same properties as any other act of faith, and the same limitations as belief in God; and that physics has now reached a point at which increasingly physicists research their own psychological constructions rather than anything which is unambiguously 'there' or real.
In this booklet, first this particle and the related CERN experiments will be briefly described. Next, the erroneous views that this particle proves or disproves the existence of God will be critiqued. Then, an analogy between this particle and the hiddenness of God will be established. In addition, the philosophical implications of the comprehension of the universe by the human mind, through mathematics, will be touched upon. Lastly, the question as to whether or not all the fundamental problems of Physics are resolved with this discovery, and the limits of science, will be discussed.
From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often unwittingly fan the flames of hysteria. This book surveys media depictions of particle accelerator physics and the perceived dangers these experiments pose.
In addition, it describes the role of scientists in propagating such fears and misconceptions, offering as a conclusion ways in which the scientific community could successfully allay such misplaced fears through more effective communication strategies. The book is aimed at the general reader interested in separating fact from fiction in the field of high-energy physics, at science educators and communicators, and, last but not least, at all scientists concerned about these issues.
Kitsune Press, Indeed, since we are all made out of the same subatomic, atomic and genetic alphabets, the scientific GOD each of us seeks should be one and the same whatever our race, religion and other differences. Its theme is 'The Future of Accelerators'.
This volume, together with previous 9 volumes, gives readers a complete picture as well as detailed technical information about the accelerator field, and its many driving and fascinating aspects. This volume has 17 articles. The first 15 articles have a different approach from the previous volumes.
They emphasize the more personal views, perspectives and advice from the frontier researchers rather than provide a review or survey of a specific subfield.
This emphasis is more aligned with the theme of the current volume. The other two articles are dedicated respectively to Leon Lederman and Burton Richter, two prominent leaders of our community who left us last year.
Today the discovery of the so-called God particle, the Higgs boson particle is forcing us to rethink our idea of God and how he thinks.
Applying the theory of the God particle as the basic building block of everything that exists, we can easily ascribe the creation of all existing forms as simply God's way of thinking or intelligent design. Our story is the ability to change forms, rearrange the God particles by human beings, which comes about as a side effect from an illegal stem cell drug given to paralyze people.
The patients are able to do out of the body travel, upsetting our legal systems. The story leads us to crimes committed by the out-of-body travelers, the law enforcement, efforts frustrated by the lack of physical explanations. An analysis by law enforcement of these weird crimes now delves into shape shifting and vampire studies, which seems related to the out-of-the-body travel. The story presents the new power, which must be stopped as a danger to our whole political system.
Morally, illegality of stem cell cures, conscience of might makes right, shift shifting, vampires, and the so-called Rapture or second coming are all woven together to bring the reader into a debate about religion, science, morality, and God. The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies.
These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing media environment in which misinformation can elicit belief without corrective context and likeminded individuals are prone to seek ideologically comforting information within their own self-constructed media enclaves.
Drawing on the expertise of leading science communication scholars from six countries, The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication not only charts the media landscape - from news and entertainment to blogs and films - but also examines the powers and perils of human biases - from the disposition to seek confirming evidence to the inclination to overweight endpoints in a trend line.
In the process, it draws together the best available social science on ways to communicate science while also minimizing the pernicious effects of human bias. The Handbook adds case studies exploring instances in which communication undercut or facilitated the access to scientific evidence. The range of topics addressed is wide, from genetically engineered organisms and nanotechnology to vaccination controversies and climate change.
Also unique to this book is a focus on the complexities of involving the public in decision making about the uses of science, the regulations that should govern its application, and the ethical boundaries within which science should operate. The Handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers in the communication fields, particularly in science and health communication, as well as to scholars involved in research on scientific topics susceptible to distortion in partisan debate.
This technical book points out shortcomings in the Higgs Mechanism and suggests a new mechanism. In doing so it shows that the origin of the Higgs particles is intimately associated with the gauge fields to which it gives masses. In addition a new form of Higgs field is proposed that has retarded asymptotic propagators.
It suggest these propagators are the local source of the Arrow of Time. All matter has mass due to this mechanism. All matter interacts with retarded Higgs fields. The cumulative result is a macroscopic Arrow of Time. In addition, massive Higgs particles have a unique preferred rest frame. All inertial reference frames are obtained from it via Lorentz transformations.
The god particle is the particle which gives mass to the matter. A sequel, of sorts, to the best-selling God Particle, this book by the Nobel-prize winner Lederman in collaboration with his previous co-author Hill, a theoretical physicist of some stature in his own right, takes up where the previous book left off.
Now that the Higgs Boson has been discovered, what next? And what does this discovery mean for our picture of reality, for the Standard Model of particle physics and for future investigations? In clear non-mathematical language, the authors take us on a tour of modern physics, from the origins of mass to the mystery of neutrinos, from the basics of weak interactions and how they fit within other, more familiar, forces to a trip into the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
Witty, combining personal anecdote with hard science, this is both a wonderful introduction into the endlessly fascinating world of theoretical physics and a personal story of two of its most prominent practitioners' involvement in the ground-breaking discoveries attending it. Due to capacity constraints we had to move the collection of Osho PDFs off this server. The books are freely available at other websites, listed below, which are easy to search.
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