Nobel Winner Steven Weinberg, Who Unified Two of Physics' Fundamental Forces, Has Died (livescience.com) 17
Long-time Slashdot reader Mogster quotes :
Steven Weinberg, a Nobel-prize winning physicist whose work helped link two of the four fundamental forces, has died at the age of 88, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) announced Saturday (July 24).
HIs work was foundational to the Standard Model, the overarching physics theory that describes how subatomic particles behave. His seminal work was a slim, three-page paper published in 1967 in the journal Physical Review Letters and entitled "A Model of Leptons." In it, he predicted how subatomic particles known as W, Z and the famous Higgs boson should behave — years before those particles were detected experimentally, according to a statement from UT Austin.
The paper also helped unify the electromagnetic force and the weak force and predicted that so-called "neutral weak currents" governed how particles would interact, according to the statement. In 1979, Weinberg and physicists Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam earned the Nobel Prize in physics for this work. Throughout his life, Weinberg would continue his search for a unified theory that would unite all four forces, according to the statement.
Weinberg also wrote a book called "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe" — in 1977.
HIs work was foundational to the Standard Model, the overarching physics theory that describes how subatomic particles behave. His seminal work was a slim, three-page paper published in 1967 in the journal Physical Review Letters and entitled "A Model of Leptons." In it, he predicted how subatomic particles known as W, Z and the famous Higgs boson should behave — years before those particles were detected experimentally, according to a statement from UT Austin.
The paper also helped unify the electromagnetic force and the weak force and predicted that so-called "neutral weak currents" governed how particles would interact, according to the statement. In 1979, Weinberg and physicists Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam earned the Nobel Prize in physics for this work. Throughout his life, Weinberg would continue his search for a unified theory that would unite all four forces, according to the statement.
Weinberg also wrote a book called "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe" — in 1977.
Great man, but old news. Why the delay? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Not sure how relevant he is to Slashdot, but I can throw in the personal story that there was a lot of whoop-la around his big project when he arrived at UT about 30 years ago. So he would have been in his 50s? But the big project never amounted to much, as far as I can recall. (It may have been dependent on another big project that got nuked. Pun intended.)
(As for AC, he has certainly stopped being useful. Especially in FP.)
Musical tribute (Score:1)
Suitable musical tribute... DJ Frane - Beyond The Time Vortex [youtube.com]
I am your DJ
interesting (Score:2)
The last page of the PDF of his article shows the top of the next article in that issue of Physical Review Letters .. anyone else noticed one of the co-authors of that particular article is the famous textbook author JJ Sakurai, and it starts off talking about Weinberg's first sum rule.
Stunning lack of coverage (Score:5, Interesting)
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Why do you follow CNN? Nothing but agenda driven hack reporters and their science coverage abysmal.
abcnews, CBS, BBC, AP, Reuters all covered it.
yes, I'm surprised to see it on Slashdot now.
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yes that's fine, but type 890 million year sponge into google and find out lots more news sites covered it, and some others also did interview.
Dreams of a final theory (Score:2)
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Citation required? I think you're referring to To Explain the World as a general history of science. Embarrassed to acknowledge that I only recently finished reading it (in May) and had already forgotten about it. Not that it was a bad book, but maybe kind of hard to remember because of the triple threading. Not just text and notes, but more mathematical and topical expansions in a section in between. (Many systems of notation to be reconciled.)
(Recommended to me by someone I was interviewing... Maybe an
Re:Check again on he Higgs Boson (Score:5, Insightful)
The particle has never actually been "discovered".
I think you have misinterpreted the NS article:
Muons are much less massive than the other types of particles we’ve seen the regular Higgs interact with, so the new discovery makes it more likely there is only one Higgs. That behaviour is exactly what we expect from the standard model. [newscientist.com] Adam Gibson-Even at Valparaiso University in Indiana, who wasn’t involved with this work, says that it is an instance of “Higgs boson, exactly as ordered”.
The title of the linked article is "The LHC has found the Higgs works perfectly - which is a problem". The problem is that we need deviations from the standard model to make progress.
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And btw, you are obsessed with Caitlyn Jenner, you've got the hots for her don't you? Admit it.