Relativity reflections to shoegazer music while budget tracking.

[serafaery]

From my limited knowledge of physics (through philosophy studies which have included talks by particle physicists, and reading a little Feynman), I'm fairly certain that there is no such thing as the Higgs Boson, that the current Large Hadron Collider is hoping to find. They will just keep finding smaller and smaller pieces of pieces.

I am thinking that maybe there is no smallest anything. It goes onto infinity. Smaller and smaller. The only limit is how sensitive our instruments for looking at small things are.

Likewise, perhaps, the universe that we exist in is infinitely big. Maybe there is no largest thing, no largest bubble of existence we sit inside. It just goes on and on into infinity.

My brain can't even understand what that means, because I am a human, and I am wired to see things as individual, as "big" or "small" in comparison to other big and small things.

Everything is relative.

I've wondered about infinite time, and infinite space, so why not infinite size? Same idea I guess. Just because we can't wrap our heads around it, doesn't mean it's not possible.

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[anthalus.livejournal.com]

Ah two philosophers discussing physics...

The Higgs Boson is believed to be a particle(s) that give mass. With the recent discovery of the Top Quark, it now seems possible that the LHC is actually powerful enough to find the Higgs Boson.



As far as infinity goes ( ∞ ), there is the Tower of Babel problem. The tower has every book ever written, with every permutation, and every book every written in the future, with every permutation, and is not full. Adding into that Super String theory (pick a flavor, such as the one with 13 "worlds") and you have further quantified the tower. Since math appears to truly hold all the keys to unlocking the universe (Phi [golden number] for example), it seems to be possible to define infinity as either human-unknowable because of mental limitations, or mathematically impossible. Which of course, is a technical way to say it exists or not. I lean towards the mathematical impossible solution.

[bobsully.livejournal.com]

I am currently reading "Fabric of the Universe" but don't expect me to deluge you with all my fantastic knowledge. Just know that we discover more and more about our existence the more we look, and the more we look from the "shoulders of giants."

Everything is not relative... hehe quantum physics you know. :)