More musings.... Bosons 'n stuff.

I was trying to sleep in, to make up for staying up too much of the night watching TV, but the noise woke me up. Opening the drapes, I counted four different landscapers with their lawnmowers raising hell across the neighborhood. Between lawnmowers and weed-whackers out there, it's loud. And living above the treetops, noise travels amazingly well. For that matter, the trees don't dampen it much either.

In the news: Stephen Hawking loses a hundred-dollar bet on the discovery of the Higgs boson. Let me say that when it comes to physics, applied or theoretical, I'm an ignoramus and a high school dropout, but like Mark Twain, I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. One wise guy while commenting on the Higgs boson said that when it comes to such tiny components of the universe as that, the very act of looking for them can alter the reality in which they exist, and the act of searching can result in the finding of a desired object or result, perhaps.

Then, there's one of my own pet theories, which goes like this: What if our physical reality, rather than being a selection of particles or energy nodules having a relatively predictable and limited range of sizes and characteristics was instead an infinite spectrum or continuum of which we're only able to perceive a relatively limited band or range of 'wavelengths' within the limitations of our own ignorance and the sensitivity of our instrumentation?

Logically, it takes something to make something, and therefore we can't conjure up a boson or an electron or an atom or a solar system from pure nothingness. It has to have its components. And those have to not only be there, but be detectable by our limited senses and equipment if we are to know of them. So it's just possible that Stephen Hawking paid off that bet prematurely, and perhaps that 'God Particle' still eludes us, just as God does.