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

From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:15:23 +0200

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.

[snip]

Bye,
Bjoern

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