When I was a kid, I used to come up with crazy theories based on partial, ultimately inaccurate understandings of things; my father used to cringe when I explained my theories, and would then dismiss my musings with a “Noooooooooooooooo . . . “<\/p>\n
But hey, despite my father’s discouragement, I never lost the knack for coming up with bogus, half-assed theories. So in light of the recent publicity regarding the world of high-energy physics and the search for the Higgs boson<\/a> (the particle that would intermediate the field interactions that give mass to most elementary particles), I’m at it again. <\/p>\n OK, I know this ain’t right, but — the principle of supersymmetry<\/a> requires a symmetric partner for every particle; it represents a bigger version of the not-quite-super-symmetry between particles and antiparticles (which have opposite charge characteristics). So, what if there are super-symmetric particles relative to the Higgs boson (or bosons — might be more than one kind)? Would they have some sort of “opposite” characteristic relative to the Higgs field interaction? If so, would they involve something of an anti-Higgs field, whereby particles would gain a sort of “anti-mass”?<\/p>\n And if so, would the characteristics of such “anti-mass” be an opposite form of gravity? All particles with mass attract each other via gravity. So, would particles endowed with the supersymmetric “anti-mass” thus act according to anti-gravity, a repulsion force? And if so, would that have anything to do with the “dark energy”<\/a> that is unexpectedly accelerating the universe’s expansion, in opposition to the slowdown expected by gravity? <\/p>\n An anti-mass property might also have to react to force in the opposite way — instead of resisting acceleration, it would fly off at the slightest touch. So just where would all this “supersymmetric stuff” be? Because of its reverse-gravity and reverse-force properties, would it already have been scattered out to the fringes of the time-space manifold which encompasses our universe? Would these particles in-effect push against the edge of timespace, slowly reviving the inflation process<\/a> and thus stoking the mysterious runaway expansion? <\/p>\n Nah, probably not. Sorry for all the pseudo-scientific gibberish. Alexander Pope said famously that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing; drink deep or taste not the spring”. I definitely have not drank deep from the springs of particle physics and modern cosmology. But I still think it’s harmless fun coming up with such wacky ideas. In fact, here’s another guy<\/a> who enjoys this kind of thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was a kid, I used to come up with crazy theories based on partial, ultimately inaccurate understandings of things; my father used to cringe when I explained my theories, and would then dismiss my musings with a “Noooooooooooooooo . . . “ But hey, despite my father’s discouragement, I never lost the knack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}