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To: LindyBill who wrote (267915)	9/11/2008 8:58:08 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793931

It may be this accelerator creates energy densities that reveals some new nature in matter. But all the theory I've seen is just more and more gobbledegook. It may show nothing new. There is clearly a deep and broad embrace of the delusional suppositions that CO2 is connected to warming the earth, although there is no foundation in any laws of physics to support the suppositions. In fact the explanation explaining the CO2 effects violate the laws of physics. So the accelerator advancing understanding may also be based upon a collective delusion. But we shall see.

To: LindyBill who wrote (267915)	9/12/2008 3:09:07 PM
From: the_wheel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793931

possibility of an anthropic explanation of the Higgs puzzle From his original paper : <<<<< In recent work, Weinberg has addressed the question of whether the Anthropic Principle can explain the smallness of the cosmological constant [3]. Roughly stated, the Anthropic Principle [4] says that the parameters of the universe that we observe are governed by the requirement that they must be able to support intelligent life, as otherwise we would not exist to observe our universe. If there is only one single “universe”, with the same laws and parameters everywhere, this is far from a satisfactory physical explanation. However, it has been realized that some physical theories can support the existence of separated domains in the universe in which different parameters and even different gauge groups are applicable. For example, in chaotic inflation [5] different domains have different Higgs vacuum expectation values, selecting different effective particle physics theories. Such domains could be regarded as, effectively, different universes. This idea that multiple “universes” can exist takes the Copernican revolution to the ultimate limit — even our universe may not be unique. In a multiple universe theory, the anthropic requirement that we live in a universe with viable parameters is as natural as is the good fortune that we happen to live on a planet that has a 1 temperature ideal for life. Discussions of the Anthropic Principle often end up dangerously close to being non-scientific. >>>>>> Has he actually FOUND intelligent life?