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   From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   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 a book about science is always a bad sign as it was not peer-reviewed by   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, ε0 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.   
      
   Please enlighten me as to your perception of my heretofore unstated   
   argument.   
      
   USA situational poet laureate Edgar Allan Poe (EAP) disdained the   
   "creeping and crawling" of Aristotelian and Platonic peerage group   
   think. Instead, EAP highly valued individual independent intuitive   
   leaps of imagination, as demonstrated by Kepler, Heaviside, and   
   George Green:   
      
       George Green (mathematician)   
      
       ... Green's life story is remarkable in that he was   
       almost entirely self-taught. He received only about   
       one year of formal schooling as a child, between the   
       ages of 8 and 9. ...   
      
       In 1828, Green published An Essay on the Application   
       of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity   
       and Magnetism, which is the essay he is most famous for   
       today. It was published privately at the author's   
       expense, because he thought it would be presumptuous   
       for a person like himself, with no formal education in   
       mathematics, to submit the paper to an established   
       journal. When Green published his Essay, it was sold on   
       a subscription basis to 51 people, most of whom were   
       friends who probably could not understand it. ...   
      
       On a visit to Nottingham in 1930, Albert Einstein   
       commented that Green had been 20 years ahead of his time.   
       The theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger, who used   
       Green's functions in his ground-breaking works, published   
       a tribute entitled "The Greening of Quantum Field Theory:   
       George and I" in 1993. ...   
      
          
      
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