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The Twitter Political Index. The Higgs boson. Still Confused About the Higgs Boson? Read This - Garance Franke-Ruta. A chance encounter at a July 4 picnic made the latest development in particle physics seem much more comprehensible. Here's what I learned. So I was at a July 4 picnic on Wednesday where one of the other guests used to be a physics teacher at Stuyvesant High School, and he explained this whole Higgs boson thing to me in a way that made it make about as much sense as it's going to for someone who only took physics in college. And he did the whole thing without using food metaphors -- molasses, soup, etc. -- which I thought was impressive.

Basically, it's like this: Sub-atomic particles are either fermions or bosons. Fermions are the things you learned about in high school physics -- electrons, protons, neutrons and so on -- that share the quality that you can't have two of them in the same space on an atom. Think of them as the billiard balls: they can be all over the table, but not in the same space at the same time, and where they go is determined by the size of the tables. . * Gluons.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel. An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development By Click here for the graphics book cover. Click here for the photograph of Max Heindel. Its Message and Mission: Creed or Christ No man loves God who hates his kind, Who tramples on his brother's heart and soul; Who seeks to shackle, cloud, or fog the mind By fears of hell has not perceived our goal. God-sent are all religions blest; And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life, To give the heavy laden rest And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife. Behold the Universal Spirit came To all the churches, not to one alone; On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame Round each apostle as a halo shone. Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, We oft have battled for an empty name, And sought by dogma, edict, cult, or creed, To send each other to the quenchless flame. Is Christ then twain? His pure sweet love is not confined By creed which segregate and raise a wall.

Then why not take Him at His word? Part I. The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception, or, Mystic Ch... Wikipedia. Wolfram|Alpha. Books24x7. Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. Where Have All the Ordinary Color Names Gone? : Candlepower. Here's a little quiz to test your knowledge of color names. Can you identify where on the spectrum these colors — all of them well documented, some of them brand-specific — are located?

Inch Worm Dead Spaniard Isabella I'm Not Really a Waitress Synergy Baffled? Frustrated? Annoyed that color naming nowadays is so arcane and confusing? I sympathize with the first two reactions. But don't be too quick to blame oddly named colors on Kids These Days: two of the names in the quiz date back to the Elizabethan era. From a certain perspective, it can seem as though color naming has devolved from straightforward to, well, goofy. After that, there was no stopping the crayon chemists and color namers. Other industries seem to have gone cuckoo with color names, too. Odd, maybe. Take automobile colors, for example. But here's the real surprise: inventive color naming started long before the 20th century. Which brings us to the big question: Why? Well, no, as it turns out. VocabGrabber. Www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/worksheets/2970/uk-us.pdf. Word-Lore, Nerd-Lore : Word Routes. Cool Books at Books24x7.