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- me-65457 accessdate "2013-01-17".
- me-65457 date "2000-12-14".
- me-65457 first "K.".
- me-65457 isCitedBy Higgs_boson.
- me-65457 last "Cole".
- me-65457 newspaper Los_Angeles_Times.
- me-65457 page "'Science File'".
- me-65457 quote "Consider the early universe–a state of pure, perfect nothingness; a formless fog of undifferentiated stuff ... 'perfect symmetry' ... What shattered this primordial perfection? One likely culprit is the so-called Higgs field ... Physicist Leon Lederman compares the way the Higgs operates to the biblical story of Babel [whose citizens] all spoke the same language ... Like God, says Lederman, the Higgs differentiated the perfect sameness, confusing everyone ... [Nobel Prizewinner Richard] Feynman wondered why the universe we live in was so obviously askew ... Perhaps, he speculated, total perfection would have been unacceptable to God. And so, just as God shattered the perfection of Babel, 'God made the laws only nearly symmetrical'".
- me-65457 quote "[T]he Higgs' influence could reach much further. For example, something like the Higgs—if not exactly the Higgs itself—may be behind many other unexplained "broken symmetries" in the universe as well ... In fact, something very much like the Higgs may have been behind the collapse of the symmetry that led to the Big Bang, which created the universe. When the forces first began to separate from their primordial sameness—taking on the distinct characters they have today—they released energy in the same way as water releases energy when it turns to ice. Except in this case, the freezing packed enough energy to blow up the universe. ... However it happened, the moral is clear: Only when the perfection shatters can everything else be born.".
- me-65457 title "One Thing Is Perfectly Clear: Nothingness Is Perfect".
- me-65457 url me-65457.
- me-65457 url "http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/14/local/me-65457".