Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
“Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.”
— Lisa Randall · Mass
The World Motivation
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
“Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.”
— Lisa Randall · Mass
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.
There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
If a mass movement turns into worshipping a particular person, that's a great problem.
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.
In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.