Epstein Secrets

this book with a quote from the naturalist J. A. Baker, from The Peregrine: "The hardest thing of all t

be correct. Things got more interesting when the LHC reported a tantalizing pos- sible signal due to a new particle about six times heavier than the Higgs particle. This particle did not have the characteristics one would expect for any supersymmetric partner of ordinary matter. In general the most e

ible scalar fields in nature. What about the Standard Model Higgs field? Could it play a role in all of these current cosmic shenanigans? Could the Higgs field store energy and be responsible for inflation either in the early universe or now? Could the Higgs field not be in its final ground state, an

r than light, ulti- mately disappearing from our horizon, leaving the universe cold, dark, and largely empty—the future that may result because of a Higgs field with a mass its times the mass of the proton could be far worse. For a Higgs mass coinciding with the allowed range of the observed 2P_Gleal

=n a recent article in Politico Magazine by Beth Baker she=describes the operation above of a 30 year-ol

006. Therefore,=l attribute that same percentage of the government's net interest outl=ys in that year to past debt-financed defense spending. When Higgs did tha= analysis four years later, he came up with a figure of $206.7 billion jus= in interest payments on our past military adventures. And most p

ng of all to see Is what Is really there. -J. A. BAKER, THE PEREGRINE L the beginning there was light.

, author of Just Six Numbers "It is an exhilarating experience to be led through this fascinating story, from Galileo to the Standard Model and the Higgs boson and beyond, with lucid detail and insight, illuminating vividly not only the achieve- ments themselves but also the joy of creative thought an