Re: What is the Standard Model

From: Patrick Reany (reany_at_asu.edu)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: 13 Jun 2004 12:58:49 -0700

"Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<cahbbt$is2$3@titan.btinternet.com>...
> "Patrick Reany" <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:844a1b64.0406120907.500c5676@posting.google.com...
> > Recently, Bilge and I had a disagreement about what is meant by the
> > so-called Standard Model of particle physics. What I'm interested in
> > is the opinions of the readership about what they feel it means.
> > Please choose from the choices below:
>
> Get it into your head that physics is not about conducting popularity
> polls.
>
> [snip the crap]
>
> Franz

Get it into your head, there is no physics without conventions,
including standardizations of terminology, vetted theories, atomic
masses, length measurements, time measurements, temperature
measurements, etc. There is always a certain amount of "popularity"
polling to establish these conventions. The polling may be restricted
to recognized experts in a field (the *population* on which the poll
is taken), but the polling is there, and somehow it gets done. No one
person has decided it all for everyone else. Furthermore, convention
evolves. Read up on it for a change at

http://hypertextbook.com/physics/foundations/system-international/

Physics is not just thousands of physicists worldwide running around
doing whatever the hell they feel like doing at any given monent,
independent of every other physicist. The ignorance of the logical
structure of science displayed on this NG is revealing. Science
education in the West has failed. The "crap" is yours.

Patrick

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