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eXorikos
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That I know, but why does unitarity not prove the impossibility of a fourth generation?
If the CKM matrix is unitary, how can there be a fourth generation that mixes with the three known generations?
As said: "It doesn't, and indeed, it cannot. Non-unitarity of the 3x3 CKM can require a 4th generation, but unitarity cannot forbid one."eXorikos said:... but why does unitarity not prove the impossibility of a fourth generation?
If the CKM matrix is unitary, how can there be a fourth generation that mixes with the three known generations?
According to Boston Globe:Shin204 said:We hear people talking about the "party model" of the Higgs boson, but what made that particle so popular in the first place?
The celebrity analogy, for instance, was first concocted in 1993 by David Miller, a physicist at University College London. Miller submitted it as one of the winning entries to a challenge posed by UK Science Minister William Waldegrave: On one sheet of paper, explain what the Higgs boson is and why it’s important to find it.
There is no known deeper reason why things interact. We just observe those interactione and can describe them with formulas.In a technical question:What makes matter interact with the higgs in the first place?
This article is from 2012, one week after the discovery of the particle got announced. It is completely outdated.euclideanspace said:Higgs may still be controversial..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171611/Is-God-particle-impostor-Scientists-claim-signal-Large-Hadron-Collider-Higgs-all.html