From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: definition of parsimony
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:10:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IGK0N-0002yU-3z@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
(Out of fairness to *the* standard model, the Higgs boson is its only
remaining unobserved particle. The other particles being sought at
Fermilab and CERN belong to supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the
standard model. Ironically such an extension while having more
particles could nevertheless claim to be more parsimonious than the
current standard model as measured by the number of its free parameters,
in particular fewer Yukawa constants. Disclaimer: if you knew SUSY like
I know SUSY no physics lab would even think of hiring you.)
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2007-07-31 17:10 Vaughan Pratt [this message]
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2007-07-30 16:30 Vaughan Pratt
2007-07-30 6:24 Axel Rossberg
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