The discovery of the Higgs boson could mean that the universe itself is arranged not as we used to think

Last year, when scientists, finally managed to discover the elusive Higgs boson, the particle was not quite what they expected. According to some physicists, it could mean that the universe itself is not arranged exactly the way we used to think.



In April, in a lecture hall at Columbia University held a performance of the famous theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton Nima Arkani-Hamed. It was mainly on the results of recent experiments with the Large Hadron Collider. On the results of which appear to be contradictory and can revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

"The universe is inevitable - said Arkani-Hamed. - The universe is impossible ».

Opening in July 2012, confirmed the Higgs boson theory 50 years ago about how elementary particles acquire mass, which allows them to form larger structures, such as a man, and like a giant galaxies. "The fact that we found a boson about where expected - a real triumph. He argues that physics really work "- said Arkani-Hamed audience.





However, for the Higgs boson could be correlated with the mass (or energy equivalent), the collider had to find a host of other particles. But no other particles were not found. And this one single bit may indicate that the problem over which physicists struggled for decades, even deeper than previously thought.

On the one hand, it reflects the reality of modern equation with remarkable accuracy, and with their help really can correctly determine the number of existing in nature values ​​up to the existence of these particles the Higgs boson. On the other - some constants, including the mass of the Higgs boson, an exponentially different from the values ​​that follow the most proven of these laws. And it says that any chance of the existence of life are excluded, unless the universe is not formed some incredible fine-tuning and inexplicable combination of exceptions.



As a result, a big question proved the concept of "naturalness", which used to say, Albert Einstein - that the laws of nature in a highly harmonious, constant and self-sufficient. If this concept would be wrong, then physicists will have to settle for much less attractive idea: that all these laws - a consequence of chaotic oscillations in time and space.

via factroom.ru