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Old 04-18-2018, 07:36 AM
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An important philosophical point, this isn't a Higgs boson, it's a bump on a graph of analyzed data, deduced by detection of other secondary decay objects that show up in raw data we wouldn't be able to interpret unless we were working in the field,


Human brains provide the direction for setting up the experiment and interpreting the little bump as strong evidence that the Higgs boson does exist with a particular mass, but we still don't know what a Higgs boson is. Is it a particle? Yes. A wave? Yes. A quantum excitation of the Higgs field? Yes, but we don't really know what that means except through mathematical equations.

So our understanding of the Higgs boson is divorced from our senses, and we have to feel around in the dark for it, using math-based physics. General relativity is even stranger, and further divorced from our senses because it contradicts those senses (linear time independent of space, Cartesian coordinates, etc.)
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