"Did the Large Hadron Collider Just Debunk Superstring Theory?" http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392094,00.asp#fbid=3VhbslwCG2p
If the conclusions are true, scientists would need a new leading candidate for the "theory of everything." FV Model ???
"Scientists Say They Can Now Test String Theory" http://www.universetoday.com/72531/scientists-say-they-can-now-test-string-theory/
A Higgs discovery seems imminent, but the weight of it could be bad news for SUSY: http://physicsworld.com/blog/2011/12/searching_for_susy.html
Interesting video. Has a more human feel to it than most: <object width="416" height="374" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/05/10/vbs.motherboard.big.bang.VBS" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/05/10/vbs.motherboard.big.bang.VBS" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object>
One of the great things about living near a major university, lectures! I live 10 minutes away from the Evanston campus by car to NWU. http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/events/index.html Wish I could attend the one today on the Higgs mechanism and mass, but can't make it
can this type of analysis, looking into matter describe what humans experience under meditiation or after LSD/DMT? are the worlds percieved during these altered states of mind in any way connected to matter/strings/whatever particle ? probably not......
Never say never, but almost certainly not. One thing that is becoming clearer, is that ensembles of things have emergent properties that the individual things do not. So in order to understand human beings, we need to study biology, psychology, neurology etc, and probably even higher level systems that may not even be invented yet, not physics.