From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3848 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: definition of parsimony Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:10:25 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019559 10556 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:39:19 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Wed Aug 1 16:48:23 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:48:23 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1IGK0N-0002yU-3z for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:37:11 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 42 Original-Lines: 10 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3848 Archived-At: (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.)