Re: How to tell if a theory is a good one

From: Ken Seto (kenseto_at_erinet.com)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: 29 Oct 2004 09:02:04 -0700

Bjoern Feuerbacher <feuerbac@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in message news:<clr9fb$37d$4@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>...
> Ken Seto wrote:
> > jhelfand@umd.edu (Joe) wrote in message news:<e62610ea.0410271616.34dac886@posting.google.com>...
> >
> >>>BTW, I hate answering long posts. So I suggest that you make separate
> >>>posts for of your questions.
> >>
> >>Ken,
> >>
> >>I attended a lecture here sometime, where a physicist talked about
> >>what we might expect at LHC in Cern. She said that they could see the
> >>Higgs, but it might also be interesting if they don't. She said she
> >>suspects that if the Higgs is at a higher mass, something else will be
> >>at a lower. What do you think of this? What do you think the people
> >>at Cern will see in LHC? Some people were joking about making wagers
> >>on it, starting a small pool about what could happen. I can get you
> >>in touch with them and you can make your own predictions. You would
> >>surely win, with the predictive power of MM under your built.
> >
> >
> > In MM if the Higgs exist it would be just another unstable particle.
> > In MM there is no need for the Higgs.
>
> Then your assertion that the SM is a subset of MM can't be right,
> since in SM, there *is* need for the Higgs.

MM provides a different way of imparting mass to particles. Therefore,
SM is a subset of MM.:-)

Ken Seto



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