Speaking of more tangential Pynchon themes

[Mark Kohut]

Wanted to anthrodiecize the Higgs...I've read too much Pynchon...
 
Guy talking to Flatow was just another summarizer, not any theorist or defender....don't remember any
names......
i'm sure the show is or will be online.........

From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking of more tangential Pynchon themes


The phrase "God particle" irks me. Good joke (the Higgs gives mass to everything, so it's necessary and everywhere, but hard to find, just like Gawd, har har har), but too easy to sensationalise. Maybe I'm oversensitive...


If I remember my high energy theory right that sounds like some David Deutsch. Remember the guy's name perchance?

On 23 June 2012 11:12, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

I listened to some phycisist on Flatow's Science Friday on NPR and two things.
>Cern having a press conference somehow about Ye Olde God Particle and recent discoveries on 4 July...
>
>But, so AtD-relevant I almost couldn't parallel park: there's a theory goin' round cosmological circles
>that maybe there is a shadow parallel universe in which certain particles--some neutrinos--'disappear'; 
>when they gather, say, 50 million neutrinos together, some dissappear, then reappear, etc....
>just like things do in AtD! Who else but TRP would find this new 'music of the spheres' as metaphor? 
>
>Very speculative theory, of course, tries to account for their loss---and some energy loss--in this and 
>sumpin' else........
>
>Seems the universe we know is entropic with leaks.........theory sez this shadow universe must control 
>the loss and disappearances....cause the one we are in does not...
>
>"Hey, there's a hell of a good universe next door. Let's go."---e.e. cummings
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