06 Apr '10 20:01>
I went to a talk by Prof Brian Cox (a researcher at the LHC at Cern and also broadcaster of science programs such as Wonders of the Solar System) a couple of weeks ago.
A very interesting talk, at a layman's level fortunately for me, but in it he mentioned the Higgs Field which is posited by current quantum theory and one of the things being searched for at the LHC.
It struck me that it sounded, to my uneducated ears, a lot like the old, generally discarded, aether theories of the 19th century. Can anyone explain, in non-technical language, the differences between them?
--- Penguin.
A very interesting talk, at a layman's level fortunately for me, but in it he mentioned the Higgs Field which is posited by current quantum theory and one of the things being searched for at the LHC.
It struck me that it sounded, to my uneducated ears, a lot like the old, generally discarded, aether theories of the 19th century. Can anyone explain, in non-technical language, the differences between them?
--- Penguin.