Monday, 23 April 2018

BRITAIN SHOULD ABANDON ITS COMMITMENT TO CERN'S IMAGINED SCIENCE (5) (Cox and Al-Khahili)

On page 129-131 of Unzicker's book, the Higgs Fake, he makes some comments about what he calls Higgs Infotainment.  After saying that particle physics has no useful output at all, he says that what people don't realise is that Cox is a particle physicist (like those at CERN).   Unzicker describes the following quotes by Cox as verbiage: "the most complex machine ever built"; it found the "genuinely fundamental" Higgs particle, "one of the most important discoveries in the history of science, on equal footing with the electron" and physics is in "a golden age".

But the case of the electron is entirely different from the so-called Higgs particle.  You can affect an electron directly by deflecting its path in a discharge tube with either a magnet or an electric charge.  You can calculate the mass of the electron with a simple calculation. The Higgs boson is said to exist for such a short time that direct action on it is impossible.  It is said to be observed from its by-products.  The by-products are said to mathematically predict the Higgs particle. The abstract, weird Mathematics which they employ are manipulated to get the result they want.  The same applies to the W and Z bosons  and the host of other particles. The masses of these particles are mostly unknown, but the Higgs particle is supposed to 'give' them their mass. How the hell does it do that?  On page 130, Unzicker, says according to Cox, it is "the best example of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" - I ask you, what kind of physicist is this?  Physics should not be done this way. On page 131, Unzicker states: "We need an explanation or even better, a calculation with testable results".  

Also on page 131, Unzicker describes J. Al-Khahili as another expert in pompous talking.  Unzicker quotes Al-khahili: "2012 (the year of the Higgs so-called discovery) promises to be a truly historic year for physics" comparing it to Einstein's "miraculous year" of 1905; the Higgs might be the "key to telling us why these particles are as they are"; the Higgs is a "possible doorway maybe to other particles"; it allows us "to tie down other uncertainties"; "looking in the right direction for other particles"; "being on the threshold of another revolution". This is all pie in the sky when you die.  It is absolute rubbish for a scientist to use such vague and fanciful language, on par with that of Cox.  But they are BBC experts.         

  

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