As forewarned, CERN has presser tomorrow on Higgs

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/6/2012 12:43 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
> It bestows existence indirectly; without mass all you have is a soup 
> of particles with no large scale interaction. Gravity is responsible 
> for forming everything we see insofar as it is the only force which 
> does not repel, i.e. there are no positive and negative gravitational 
> "poles".
>
> Paul, re the essence-existence thing, quantum mechanics throws up some 
> interesting questions as to the philosophical nature of existence and 
> identity. Since all subatomic particles are identical, you have a 
> problem reconciling quantum mechanical notions of identity with 
> Leibniz's Identity of Indiscernables. Some people go so far as to 
> introduce haecceities into the discussion; historically speaking this 
> is interesting since this results in a  debate spookily analogous to 
> that of the medieval scholastics.

That's really interesting.  Medieval philosophy may be making a come 
back.  Not really, but some perplexities seem to be eternal.

Did anyone besides me do high school Latin and had to learn the 
demonstrative pronoun?

hic haec hoc
huius huius huius
etc.

P
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> Prashant
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> On 6 July 2012 02:24, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>     On 7/5/2012 11:35 AM, David Morris wrote:
>
>         OK, I stand corrected.  Existence w/o mass.  I expect such
>         existence
>         would never become more organized than at the sub-atomic
>         level.  But
>         I'm no physicist.
>
>
>     Me neither, but somehow I'm reminded of the Medieval controversy
>     over the distinction between essence and existence, if any.
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>     P
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>         On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Monte Davis
>         <montedavis at verizon.net <mailto:montedavis at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>             It bestows mass; they haven’t [yet] gotten around to a
>             field/particle that
>             “bestows existence.”
>
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>              From  David Morris
>             Higgs is the new either, a medium that bestows existence.
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