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  • 17-year-old who won't help at home

    Prudie was much too permissive and indulgent. Girl should NOT be totally exempt from helping her disabled mother around the house -- especially in light of her father's wholehearted cooperation. What on earth kind of character would mother be building if she asked NOTHING of the girl! Plenty of students (a) work (b) study and (c) help raise ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Hamalkah on October 6, 2007

  • Re: The article ignores the other experiments

    Thanks, PhysicsGirl, for the thoughtful comments. I wholeheartedly agree that there is a lot planned at the LHC, much of which has nothing to do with the Higgs boson. And yet, the Higgs seems to be at the center of the popular discussion (as I pointed out, with the articles in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe, in the last ...
    Posted to Science by jamesowenweatherall on June 5, 2007

  • Re: Misleading

    I tried to address this elsewhere (also in response to Ira). But to quickly rehash, my reasoning goes as follows (this is somewhat technical): if the Higgs mass is >> the W boson mass, partial wave unitarity is violated. So we know the Higgs mass must be <~ 1 TeV for the Standard Model to work. But otherwise, with the Higgs mass put ...
    Posted to Science by jamesowenweatherall on June 5, 2007

  • Re: suppose they built a large hadron . .

    I guess what you're really asking is just how usefel all this money going into science really is. It's the classic argument of either finding out everything we can right now or using what we already know for good. For me, it's pretty clear. You need a mix of both. Besides, many of the things you have proposed we spend more money on need billions ...
    Posted to Science by btjaus on June 4, 2007

  • The Higgs, etc.

    A very nicely written article... on an exciting subject. Can't wait until the end of the summer to hear how it all turns out. Many thanks.
    Posted to Science by eashamer on June 4, 2007