From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:33:21 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn   
    wrote:   
      
   >Don wrote:   
   >> Pertinent passages pulled from THE HIGGS FAKE: HOW PARTICLE PHYSICS   
   >> FOOLED THE NOBEL COMMITTEE by Alexander Unzicker:   
   >   
   >Unzicker has studied Physics and has obtained a university diploma in   
   >Physics in 1985.  Other than that, however, he is merely an author of   
   >popular-scientific books who, because of their content, is not taken   
   >seriously in the scientific community.   
   >   
   >Incidentally, this particular book was self-published by Unzicker which for   
   >a book about science is always a bad sign as it was not peer-reviewed by   
   >a(nother) scientist before publication:   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>     Come out with a Number   
   >>   
   >>     Today's scientists got widely used to cheap patches when   
   >>     it comes to fixing some contradiction in an ad-hoc manner,   
   >>     but the real problems fall into oblivion. Take, for   
   >>     instance, the fine structure constant, a combination of   
   >>     the constants c, e, ?0 and h. The number 137.035999... is,   
   >>     according to Richard Feynman, "one of the great damn   
   >>     mysteries of physics" and he recommended all good   
   >>     theoretical physicists should "put this number up on their   
   >>     wall and worry about it." [...]   
   >   
   >None of this has anything to do with the Brout--Englert--Higgs mechanism.   
   >   
   >Unzicker's whole argument is a fallacy, and so is yours.   
      
   He sounds interesting, so I just ordered one of his books.   
      
   Thanks   
      
      
   John Larkin   
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