Stephen Hawkings has a tendency not to believe in things that turn out to be true.

Subtle is the Lord.

12 elementary particles - why I would make the guess that string theory will find that there are 12 dimensions to physical reality.

Meanwhile, Brian Ross of ABC News is reporting that the Higgs boson sighting was just a passing truck.

Perhaps Professor Green would explain the relationship of the ST to the Veneziano amplitude.

And perhaps he might also explain whether the SM fits the data well without ST

Huh. I would've thought the reason for creating the particles was that they didn't exist separate from the matter they're giving mass to, & they need to be isolated from that in order to be detected, or at least recognized.

Could the guests speak about how the Higgs boson and the Higgs field relates to gravity. Is there a connection between the two?

Does this help resolve some of the paradoxes between general relativity and quantum mechanics ?

If the Higgs boson were never found, physicists would have to find another explanation for mass.

Mark from Brooklyn--yeah, some explanations I've heard remind me of the ether!

The mass found for the candidate Higgs particle by LHC and the absence of other particles has a severe impact on Supersymmetry Theory and dark matter candidates, and Brian should explain this.

Why was the announcement that the particle had been found qualified? What doubt remains, if any?

The theory predicted the experiment, and some of its results, but did it predict all of the data? How likely is the experimental data to Add to theory?

Question: why must we produce these particles like the Higgs in order to observer them? They must exist in nature if they are serving this purpose of providing mass to other particles. Why can we not study one that already exists?

If the Higgs boson gives mass to matter, does that include antimatter?

Do the multiples of spin 1 follow a pattern? 1, 2, 3.5...?

I read that the Higgs has a very brief existence (billionths of a second). Is it possible that an older collider could have created it but the detectors weren't fast enough to see it?

Seems line 'the ether' all over again.

Does the Higgs Boson remind anyone of the Ether Wind of pre-Einstein physics? Invisible, omnipresent, etc.

Does this mean the idea that:"Most matter is empty spaces.",which I learned in High School, is not true?

This piece in The Atlantic has a good description of the Higgs and it's kin:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/still-confused-about-the-higgs-boson-read-this/259472/

I've read that the Higgs field doesn't explain the total mass of the universe, but only of some particles like quarks. Most of the mass of an atom comes from the strong nuclear force. Is that correct?

I am in the middle of "The Elegant Universe," and really enjoying it! I am not a scientist, but an artist. It's all so fascinating.
I am certainly grasping all the concepts as they are covered; the challenge is retaining them as I learn the next one! I might have to read it twice.

In their latest issue, Atheism Monthly magazine ran a piece about this subject. It was a godless article.