Famed physicist and science writer Michio Kaku said it best: if physics doesn’t discover the Higgs Boson Particle it would be a “disaster” for modern physics. The entire edifice of cosmology we’ve been taught to believe real – from the Big Bang to black holes, dark matter and dark energy, it all collapses.
Well, the most highly touted scientific breakthrough of the year, the discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle by the CERN supercollider facility in Switzerland, is one of two things: the confirmation of physics, an event of such magnitude that physics will have to wonder what they’re going to do with themselves – or a fiasco that announces a “tipping point” in physics, which would then have to crumple a century’s worth of theory and toss it into the trash can, starting over from scratch. There is a renegade group of scientists who firmly believe the latter will be the case. They brandish the theory that the universe is primarily electric, not gravitationally-driven, and their star witness is very much a star: none other than the Sun.
The Higgs Fiasco and the Electric Sun [ w/ videos]
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