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The Higgs boson is delightfully stirring the mud puddle in the astrophysics community even after found! Instead of clearing everything up, now more questions have to be asked.
British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) presents the new research on June 24 at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth.
The controversy seems to be about one of the predictions of BICEP2 allegedly being observed, and if so, Robert Hogan seems to think that if they did see this effect, then the universe would not exist today, it would have went straight to 'Big Crunch' right after the 'Big Bang'.
Pop the corn, this may be a good one!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Non Sequor on Wednesday June 25 2014, @02:43AM
I can't rule out rule out that sort of thing although it's a bit froufrou. If you want mysticism you can actually get it without all of the mysticism.
The existence of laws of physics which allow the existence of life as we know it is a non-trivial mathematical result. We exist by virtue of that result. Regardless of how you frame what you believe in, you can't argue with that. It simply is.
That's my religion. I don't think it's entirely removed from other people's religion.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.