The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics 94
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Jorge Cham, author of the comic strip Ph.D. comics, recently found himself on a bus crossing the Israel-Jordan border sitting next to Eilam Gross, head of the Atlas Higgs Group, one of the two groups that found the famous particle. When Cham asked Gross for feedback on the Higgs Boson animation he had done last year, Gross told Cham 'It's all wrong' and noted that he had yet to see a truly correct explanation of what the the Higgs Boson is. For the next three hours Gross, also known as the 'Mick Jagger of physics,' told Cham the story of the Higgs Boson and asked him to put it into a new comic strip. The result is a new comic re-explaining the Higgs Boson. 'So how does this explain things like inertia?' 'That's another bus ride.' As an interesting side note Gross was once asked what Higgs was good for and replied that when [J.J.] Thomson discovered the electron, in 1895, he raised a glass of champagne and proposed a toast 'to the useless electron.'"
Symmetry is beautiful (Score:4, Insightful)
Just like planets had to orbit in circles because circles are beautiful?
Mick Jagger of physics (Score:5, Insightful)
What the fuck does that even mean?
Philosophical questions (Score:3, Insightful)
I think that at those ultimate levels, this distinction is quite fuzzy for all the reality in general.
Re:Buckaroo Bonzai? (Score:4, Insightful)