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  • ‘Higgs Bosun Particle Dangerous ‘How To Talk Scientific Nonsense

    All os us know that were experiments to find the ultimate particle called the ‘Bosun Particle’.

     

    At CERN they failed in their first attempt.

     

    Then they said, on their second attempt, they declared they found it and were analyzing the results’.

     

    Particle tracks from a proton-proton collision (also called an event) in the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Events like this are a possible sign of the Higgs particle, though many events must be analyzed together to say with confidence the signal came from the elusive particle.
    Particle tracks from a proton-proton collision (also called an event) in the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Events like this are a possible sign of the Higgs particle, though many events must be analyzed together to say with confidence the signal came from the elusive particle.
    LHC's CMS Shows Possible Higgs SignatureCredit: CERN/CMS/Taylor, L; McCauley, T Real CMS proton-proton collisions events at the Large Hadron Collider in which 4 high energy electrons (red towers) are observed. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes.
    LHC’s CMS Shows Possible Higgs SignatureCredit: CERN/CMS/Taylor, L; McCauley, T Real CMS proton-proton collisions events at the Large Hadron Collider in which 4 high energy electrons (red towers) are observed. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes.

     

    Now comes a profound Statement .

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    A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say.

    The mass of the particle, which was uncovered at the world’s largest particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva — is a key ingredient in a calculation that portends the future of space and time.

     

    ‘Many tens of billions of years from now there’ll be a catastrophe.’

    – Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

     

    “This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there’ll be a catastrophe,” Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said Monday, Feb. 18, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.”

    *Copy Right.

    The joke is this article is copy righted!

    “Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.”

    The amazing discovery is that the Universe is Unstable and it May end Billions of years from hence.

    But, the great Scientist consoles us ‘

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    But even if the universe is in for an unfortunate end, there is at least one reason for consolation.

    “You won’t actually see it, because it will come at you at the speed of light,” Lykken said. “So in that sense don’t worry.”‘

    What a Profound discovery.

    Even a child knows the universe or even we will become extinct one day and we may not be able to do any thing about it.

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/higgs-boson-particle-may-spell-doom-for-universe/

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    PRO: According to our understanding of the universe, the matter we can observe only accounts for about 4 percent of all the matter that exists. Physicists have proposed a kind of substance called dark matter that might make up to 25 percent of the matter in the universe when combined with what we can see. The other 75 percent might come from dark energy. Some scientists at CE­RN hope the LHC will uncover evidence of dark matter.

    CON: The LHC could also produce black holes. A black hole compresses matter into a point of infinite density called a singularity. In general, most people think compressing matter like that constitutes a bad thing — some worry the black holes generated by CERN could destroy the Earth. CERN scientists say that if the LHC does create black holes, they will be very small, harmless and will decay almost instantaneously.

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/cern1.htm

  • Milky Way Galaxy Rotation Affects our Local Time

    Artist's conception of the spiral structure of...
    Artist’s conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way with two major stellar arms and a central bar. "Using infrared images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    these conceptual problems arise only if we take Space/Time as Absolute.
    Time/Space is Relative.
    We do not determine Time/Space.
    We are conditioned by them and Human mind can not comprehend anything without reference to them.
    Refer, my blog Time a ,A Cyclic Theory.
    Time is Non-Linear.
    If we accept this fact. these seeming contradictions would cease to exist.
    Asymmetry is the creation of the Human Mind,so also
    Symmetry.
    We look for these things, when in Reality they do not exist.
    Things are what they are, and not because what we perceive them to be.

    Sri Vishnu Purana, in the Evolution of The Universe deals with this point  in detail.

    About:

    “The spin of our galaxy has a twisting effect on our local space that is a million times stronger than that caused by the spin of the Earth.”  –Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick

    Photo of Milky Way
    Milky Way image

    In 2011, A University of Warwick physicist produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why different amounts of matter and antimatter seem to have survived the birth of our Universe.Physicists would like a neat universe where the laws of physics are so universal that every particle and its antiparticle behave in the same way. However in recent years experimental observations of particles known as Kaons and B Mesons have revealed significant differences in how their matter and anti matter versions decay.

    This “Charge Parity violation” or “CP violation” is an awkward anomaly for some researchers but is a useful phenomenon for others as it may open up a way of explaining why more matter than anti matter appears to have survived the birth of our universe.

    Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, believes he has found a testable explanation for apparent Charge Parity violation that preserves parity but also makes the Charge Parity violation an even more plausible explanation for the split between matter and antimatter.

    Dr Hadley’s paper (just published in EPL (Europhysics Letters) and entitled “The asymmetric Kerr metric as a source of CP violation”) suggests that researchers have neglected the significant impact of the rotation of our Galaxy on the pattern of how sub atomic particles breakdown.Dr Hadley says:
    “Nature is fundamentally asymmetric according to the accepted views of particle physics. There is a clear left right asymmetry in weak interactions and a much smaller CP violation in Kaon systems.

    These have been measured but never explained. This research suggests that the experimental results in our laboratories are a consequence of galactic rotation twisting our local space time. If that is shown to be correct then nature would be fundamentally symmetric after all.

    This radical prediction is testable with the data that has already been collected at Cern and BaBar by looking for results that are skewed in the direction that the galaxy rotates.”

    It is easy to neglect the effect of something as large as a galaxy because what seems most obvious to us is the local gravitation field of the Earth or the Sun, both of which have a much more readily apparent gravitational affect on us than that exerted by our galaxy as a whole. However Dr Hadley believes that what is more important in this case is an affect generated by a spinning massive body.

    The speed and angular momentum of the Milky Way‘s massive spinning body creates “frame dragging” on its local space and time twisting the shape of that space time and creating time dilation effects.
    When CP violation has been observed in the decay of B-Mesons the key difference observed between the break-up of matter and antimatter versions of the same particle is variation in the different decay rates.

    Curiously even though researchers observe that wide variation in the pattern of decay rates when those individual decay rates are added together they add up to the same total for both matter and antimatter versions of the same particle.

    http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/milky_way_s_rotation_it_s_effect_on_our_local_space_time

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  • It’s There,yet not There! -God Particle and Indian Philosophy.

    CERN Scientists in search of Higgs Bosun or God particle at the CERN physics research centre near Geneva said that the particle’s existence is 95% confirmed and absolute proof is yet to come. 

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    The researchers were careful to note they do not have enough data yet to definitively say the particle exists, but also said the latest data is strong enough that the question could be answered one way or another by next year.

    Researchers hope that the particle, if it exists, can help explain many mysteries of the universe. British physicistPeter Higgs and others theorized the particle’s existence more than 40 years ago to explain why atoms, and everything else in the universe, have weight.

    Both of the research teams are involved with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN oversees the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border, a 17-mile tunnel where high energy beams of protons are sent crashing into each other at incredible speeds.

    Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian physicist who heads the team running the so-called ATLAS experiment, said “the hottest region” is in lower energy ranges of the collider. She said there are indications of the Higgs’ existence and that with enough data it could be unambiguously discovered or ruled out next year.’

    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/story/2011-12-13/god-particle-higgs-boson/51869786/1

    This sounds more like the Concept of God, He is up there,yet not there.

    Levity apart ,Vaisheshika system of Indian Philosophy throws some insight into this.

    Vaisheshika system of Indian Philosophy postulates Atomic Theory.

    It has recognized the existence of Atoms at the level we come to know of them to-day.
    It also explains how they combine with each others to produce a Molecule, and later objects. 

    Fundamentally all objects can be reduced into Atoms.

    Each Atom is unique(visesha).

    When one combines with another ,similar in Nature (not identical), they together form a Binary..

    These Atoms in the Binary are conjoined ;but the Binary in relation to these Atoms are not only conjoined with them but the relationship is something more, that is what makes the whole different from the parts.That is to say, the Binary is conjoined ,yet not conjoined. The whole is the Sum of its parts and something more.

    The Vaisheshika call this unique properties of Atoms when they conjoin to produce a Binary as ‘Samavaya’.

    If one were to remove the threads of a piece of cloth one by one ,at the end the Cloth will become non-existent.

    This is the relation spoken of here.

    Three Binaries produce a ‘Triad’ which are the fundamental particles to Matter as we see them.

    The Triads are related to the Binaries as ‘Samavaya’

    This special attribute is what makes up the Universe.

     Higgs Bosun particle, even when  proved, will only indicate the existence of another particle and will not explain why it came into being or how it possesses the quality it is presumed to possess.

    Ultimately we will find the ‘How’ and not the Why”

    In this case even ‘ How’ is doubtful.

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    The Higgs boson (sometimes nicknamed the “God particle” in popular media) is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by theStandard Model (SM) of particle physics. The Higgs boson is an integral part of the theoretical Higgs mechanism. If shown to exist, it would help explain why other particles can have mass.[Note 2] It is the only predicted elementary particle that has not yet been observed in particle physics experiments.[1]Theories that do not need the Higgs boson also exist and would be considered if the existence of the Higgs Boson was ruled out. They are described asHiggsless models.

    If shown to exist, the Higgs mechanism would also explain why the W and Z bosons, which mediate weak interactions, are massive whereas the relatedphoton, which mediates electromagnetism, is massless. The Higgs boson is expected to be in a class of particles known as scalar bosons. (Bosons are particles with integer spin, and scalar bosons have spin 0.)

    Experiments attempting to find the particle are currently being performed using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and were performed at Fermilab’sTevatron until its closure in late 2011. Some theories suggest that any mechanism capable of generating the masses of elementary particles must be visible at energies below 1.4 TeV; therefore, the LHC is expected to be able to provide experimental evidence of the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson.

    On 12 December 2011, the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC found that a Higgs mass in the range from 145 to 206 GeV was excluded at the 95% confidence level. On 13 December 2011, experimental results were announced from the ATLAS and CMS experiments, suggesting that if the Higgs Boson exists, it is probably limited to a range of 115–130 GeV at the 3.6 sigma level (ATLAS) or 117–127 GeV at the 2.6 sigma level (CMS), and indicating possible scope for a 124 GeV (CMS) or 125-126 GeV (ATLAS) Higgs. As of 13 December 2011, a joint estimate is not available.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

     

    You will find interesting Videos in Youtube.

     

     

     

  • Einstein Wrong? NO.

    These apparent contradictions are due to the assumption Light is the fastest particle known to us.

    This assumption need not be correct.

    I remember having read somewhere Einstein having said that if a particle were to travel faster than Light it no longer remains Matter.

    An interesting observation.

    The observable Universe/Light is possible when the Observer and the Observed remain in the same plane.

    If the velocity of the Observed is greater than the Observer He can not observe it, but can only deduce it.

    In that case it does not stand to verification by strict scientific standards.

    It moves then to the Realm of Philosophy, the Mother of Sciences.

    The present concept can be better understood if one were to accept the Cyclic Theory of Time,which allows for particles to exist at different planes,different velocities.

     Findings of Quantum Theory supports this Concept..

    Please read my blog, Time-non linear theory.

    Another point.

    What we perceive is conditioned by Perception.

    The Concept of Perception is still not very clear.

    Hence what we perceive is  limited by Space and Time.

    None can form a thought with out reference to Space and Time.

    And we are yet to define Space and Time correctly.!

    So our knowledge is limited..

    Any Theory we have of anything is of Utilititarian value only.

    Our perception of the Universe does not change  the Universe and the frequent reversal of our theories of Physical Laws do not affect the Universe in the least .

    Please read my blog on Perception.

    However all Theories are correct from their Perspective, including Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Finite Theory..

    If a finding released Thursday by scientists in Geneva proves to be true, the world’s most famous equation – Albert Einstein‘sE=MC2 – could be moot, undoing our current understanding of the physical world.

    Einstein revealed that equation in his special theory of relativityreleased in 1905. It asserted that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, and helped shape our understanding of the physical world.

    The scientists in Geneva fired a beam of neutrinos – elementary particles which don’t hold an electrical charge and pass through ordinary matter with virtually no interaction – from CERN‘S particle accelerator to a lab in Italy about 730 kilometers away.

    The speed of light is 299,792.458 kilometers per second. The Geneva scientists found their sub-atomic particles traveled to Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light – or 300,006 kilometers per second.

    That appears to break the limit set by Einstein.

    http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2011/09/23/was-einstein-wrong/

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    Theoretical Basis for Special Relativity

    Einstein’s theory of special relativity results from two statements — the two basic postulates of special relativity:

    1. The speed of light is the same for all observers, no matter what their relative speeds.
    2. The laws of physics are the same in any inertial (that is, non-accelerated) frame of reference. This means that the laws of physics observed by a hypothetical observer traveling with a relativistic particle must be the same as those observed by an observer who is stationary in the laboratory.

    Given these two statements, Einstein showed how definitions of momentum and energy must be refined and how quantities such as length and time must change from one observer to another in order to get consistent results for physical quantities such as particle half-life.  To decide whether his postulates are a correct theory of nature, physicists test whether the predictions of Einstein’s theory match observations. Indeed many such tests have been made — and the answers Einstein gave are right every time!

    The Speed of Light is the same for all observers.

    The first postulate — the speed of light will be seen to be the same relative to any observer, independent of the motion of the observer — is the crucial idea that led Einstein to formulate his theory. It means we can define a quantity c, the speed of light, which is a fundamental constant of nature.

    Note that this is quite different from the motion of ordinary, massive objects. If I am driving down the freeway at 50 miles per hour relative to the road, a car traveling in the same direction at 55 mph has a speed of only 5 mph relative to me, while a car coming in the opposite direction at 55 mph approaches me at a rate of 105 mph. Their speed relative to me depends on my motion as well as on theirs.

    Physics is the same for all inertial observers.

    This second postulate is really a basic though unspoken assumption in all of science — the idea that we can formulate rules of nature which do not depend on our particular observing situation. This does not mean that things behave in the same way on the earth and in space, e.g. an observer at the surface of the earth is affected by the earth’s gravity, but it does mean that the effect of a force on an object is the same independent of what causes the force and also of where the object is or what its speed is.

    Einstein developed a theory of motion that could consistently contain both the same speed of light for any observer and the familiar addition of velocities described above for slow-moving objects. This is called the special theory of relativity, since it deals with the relativemotions of objects.

    http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/relativity.html

  • Astrophysicists: Time, universe will end in 3.7 billion years.

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    According to Indian Philosophy, the period in question is 3.1 Billion years (appx) Time is Cyclic , not linear. “TIME- Calculation in Hindu Philosophy.
    Story:
    According to a team of United States and Japanese astrophysicists, they say there is a 50 percent chance that the end of everything as we know it will occur in approximately 3.7 billion years, reports Agence-France Presse.
    The inevitable conclusion of our universe’s existence will transpire because of the expansion of the universe. Although scientists generally agree that the universe expanding can occur for an infinite period of time, the team of researchers say the rules of physics state that an eternal inflating universe is unlikely. “The point of this paper is to show that certain methods and assumptions that have been widely used by physicists for years — most prominently, the use of a time cutoff in order to compute probabilities in an eternally inflating universe — lead to the conclusion that time will end,” said Raphael Bousso of the University of California. “In other words, the time cutoff, which we may have thought was just a calculational tool, actually behaves like a physical event, whether we like it or not.” 

    Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/299119#tab=comments&sc=0&local=#ixzz12vJpMvkn

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    GENEVA (Reuters) – Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.

    And as their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva moves into high gear, they are talking increasingly of the “New Physics” on the horizon that could totally change current views of the universe and how it works.

    “Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions… These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11926151

    Also refer my blogs on Time ,Indian Philosophy.AstroPhysics


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