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rhody
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Quotes from the article written up in http://www.cyprus-mail.com/opinions/mind-s-new-eye/20100410" by Frank Wilczek.
From the brief writeup, there was nothing "new" or "unheard of" that stuck out, however the book may be filled with bits of information and/or insight that has not been heard of before.
Just thought it was worthy to note...
Rhody...
Because the original Big Bang produced dark matter, the LHC’s Little Bangs might produce some more. So experimenters will be looking for new particles with the right properties to provide the astronomical dark matter: very long-lived and very feebly interacting with ordinary matter or light. There is a good chance, then, that we will learn what that ubiquitous, abundant, yet elusive substance is.
Imagine a race of intelligent fish that start to think deeply about the world. For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted; to them, it was “emptiness” as empty as they could conceive. But, after studying some mechanics and using their imaginations, the physicist-fish realize that they could deduce much simpler laws of motion by supposing that they are surrounded by a medium (water!) that complicates the appearance of things.
We are those fish. We have discovered that we can get a much simpler set of equations for fundamental physics by supposing that what we ordinarily perceive as empty space is actually a medium. We have observed the effects of the “water” that we use to simplify our equations – it slows down particles, and makes them heavy – but we do not know what it is made out of.
From the brief writeup, there was nothing "new" or "unheard of" that stuck out, however the book may be filled with bits of information and/or insight that has not been heard of before.
Just thought it was worthy to note...
Rhody...
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