Milestone In War On Republican/christian Pseudo-science

[Hairy DJ]

Essay: Nature's Secrets Foretold - Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341991/title/Essay_Natures_secrets_foretold

 

"Their success illustrates a further meaningfulness of the Higgs discovery: It validates the scientific enterprise as a way of knowing nature. Somehow, humans fiddling with squiggles on paper figured out what you would find if you spent billions of dollars on a machine to create temperatures of a million billion degrees. Scientists figured out one of nature’s deepest secrets just by using their heads."

 

It is also a milestone in the republican/christian fundamentalist war on science. It is one more triumph of evidence based, reality based science over faith based pseudo-science such as "intelligent design" and climate change denial.

[djzebbie]

Makes me think of that song "Particle Man" by They Might Be Giants.

 

 

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[Shinryuu]

Seems like we're close to fiddling with them now that we've proof they exist.