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=== 2009 === | |||
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|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" | |||
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|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? | |||
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|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly | |||
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|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. | |||
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|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream | |||
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|content=I’ll have a lot to say about [[Jim Watson|Jim]] at some point. But let me share my usual quote before this space fills up with irrelevant comments. | |||
“The legacy of [[Jim Watson|James Watson]] is so singular and profound, that it was always far too important to Western Science to have been entrusted to [[Jim Watson|Jim]].” | |||
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|content=Life’s eternal partnership: visualized. | |||
[[Jim Watson|Jim]] did the Hydrogen Bonds across the inside. | |||
[[Francis Crick|Francis]] discerned the SugarPhosphate Backbone along the outside. | |||
Thus inextricably fusing themselves, and our two great nations, together forever. | |||
RIP [[Jim Watson|Jim]]. Maybe the greatest man I’ve known. | |||
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