21 February, 2013 – This Week in Science

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Published: March 7, 2013Posted in: animals, anthropology, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, cognitive science, ecology, emergent behavior, end of the world, energy, engineering, evolution, fish, genetics, KDVS, mammals, marine biology, microbiology, molecular biology, NASA, paleontology, particle physics, physicists, physics, podcast, science, science and politics, science history, Science Music, sexuality, sexy scientists, space, technology, theoretical physics, z-BroadcastsTags: Dognition, Dr. Brian Hare, Dr. Kiki, Justin Jackson, Kirsten Sanford, news, podcast, radio, science, talk, technology, This Week in Science, TWIS

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1. Physics Police

   Posted March 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM

   6:40 On the other hand, this is completely based on the particles that we know.
   6:50 There is room for discovery of particles that could re-balance everything…
   This news story is about the consequences of Higgs field’s energy potential being hat-shaped.
   You are suggesting that BSM physics could somehow do away with this energy potential.
   Any BSM physics will have to explain the existence of a 125 GeV scalar boson.
   It also has to explain Electroweak symmetry breaking.
   The Higgs mechanism will never go away as the answer to these facts about nature.
   I suspect you may be alluding to Supersymmetry (SUSY)?
   The main motivation for SUSY was to solve the hierarchy problem, caused by the (relatively) small Higgs mass.
   As you can see, SUSY depends on the Higgs mechanism, hat-shaped energy potential, and all.