[MD] Quality and the Higgs Field: An Analogy

[Jan-Anders]

Yes Mark

I think you got something here.

Scientists with a taste for materiality and positive measureable 
particles, without any sense of moral, look for more funding to find 
even smaller representations of the Universal Principe which is just a 
balance between energy, pattern and value. I think if they just rose 
their head they should be able to find it (the evidence for Quality) in 
their own lunchboxes. But that doesn't qualify for the big funds as 
usual. Better have a big expensive machine that says "ping". 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc

So what's creating the Higgs mechanism then? It must be a even mightier 
and hidden force, ah, the Godfather!

:-)

JA



moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org wrote 2011-01-27 20.10:
> Hi All,
>
> Some of us like to tie ideas from physics into MoQ.  I know that
> Pirsig does.  This post brings in the analogy of the Higgs Field.
>
> The Higgs Field was conceived of in the 1960's by none other than
> Higgs.  The basic premise of such a field is that it creates and
> differentiates between particles.  It can be seen as kind of a drag on
> enery, slowing it down.  So it, theoretically (or is it
> metaphysically?), provides the differentiation between all the quarks
> and all the leptons.  From these differences comes all the other
> things which we experience as matter.  Thus, it could be said that
> lead and gold are ultimately differentiated by the Higgs Field.
> Without such a field, all matter would be the same as energy.  It is
> theorized that at very high temperatures, the Higgs Field disappears,
> that is, that there is no difference, and no mass either.  In fact,
> this is often used to describe the beginning of the universe, if such
> a thing is imagined.  Now, how does the Higgs Field differentiate
> matter?  Well that is supposed to be through the Higgs Particle, or
> the Higgs Boson as it is called.  Because of its importance to
> everything we see, such a particle is also called the God Particle.
> Tthat is the metaphysics of physics, supported by math of course, and
> colliders have been built to look for it, if the theory is still
> favorable.
>
> So imagine, if you will, something called Quality.  It is through
> Quality that things exist separately.  This Quality is what provides
> all the qualitative differences between things.  By way of analogy,
> Quality would be a field which creates the value between things.  If
> all things were the same, there would be no Quality.  Quality is what
> separates and differentiates.  The manner in which Quality interacts
> with Sameness is what provides us with values and morals.  It is what
> provides us with choices.  Therefore, one should not look at things as
> having Quality.  Rather it is what separates those things that has the
> Quality.  As a field, it is utterly dynamic, and leaves a static world
> in its wake.  Such Quality has more existence than what it creates,
> since it is the foundation of all.  The static world is a byproduct of
> the movement of Quality.  So, my friends, look between (not subjects,
> not objects) and there is your answer.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark