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Editorial

Scientific Genesis in the Making: Higgs Discovery & the Shadow of God Particle (Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu)

Higgs Reports

Live Higgs Report on July 4, 2012 & Congratulations - It's a Boson (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Higgs Essays

The Higgs Boson and the Power of Consistency (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Is It Really Higgs? (by Matti Pitkanen)

Vita Principalis: Road to Single Mathematical Particle (by Dainis Zeps)

Articles

The Key to Happiness in Existence (by Steven E. Kaufman)

Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance (by Iona Miller, Paul Wildman)

The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths (by Paul Wildman)

Essays

The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration (by Iona Miller)

Table of Contents: http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/issue/view/26

Editorial

Dawn of a Brave New World: Higgs Discovery & the “God Particle” (by Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu)

Higgs Reports

Live Higgs Report on July 4, 2012 & Congratulations - It's a Boson (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Higgs Essays

The Higgs Boson and the Power of Consistency (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Is It Really Higgs? (by Matti Pitkanen)

Creatio Ex Nihilo: Road to Single Mathematical Particle (by Dainis Zeps)

Articles

What We Can Learn about Consciousness from Altered States of Consciousness (by Imants Baruss)

The Secret of Happiness (by Steven E. Kaufman)

Ethology, Evolution, Mind & Consciousness (by Glen McBride)

Empty Diamonds & the Diamond Cutter Sutra: Mindful Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism I, II & III (by Graham P. Smetham).

Table of Contents: http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/issue/view/32

Editorial

The Higgs Boson and the Power of Consistency (by Philip E. Gibbs)

A Great Triumph in 21st Century Particle Physics: the Discovery of a New Particle & the Aftermath (by Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu)

Special Reports

Higgs Live, viXra Combinations and Congratulations - It's an Boson (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Tevatron Squeeze 2.9 Sigma Higgs Signal (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Higgs Essays

A Review of Higgs Particle Physics (by Lawrence B. Crowell)

Is It Really Higgs? (by Matti Pitkänen)

The Higgs Boson (by B. G. Sidharth)

Crossroads on Way to Single Mathematical Particle (by Dainis Zeps)

Articles

Are Unofficial Higgs Combinations Valid? Unofficial Higgs Discovery with 2011 Data and H --> WW Revisited (by Philip E. Gibbs)

Decomposing Electromagnetism's Four-potential into Quantizable and non-Quantizable Parts via Conserved Spacelike Projections of the Four-current (by Steven K. Kauffmann)

Preferred Extremals of Kahler Action & Solutions of the Modified Dirac Equation? (by Matti Pitkänen)

Hunting the Higgs Boson Using the Cholesky Decomposition of an Indefinite Matrix (by John R Smith, Milan Nikolic, Stephen P. Smith)

The Zero-mass Renormalization Group Differential Equations and Limit Cycles in Non-smooth Initial Value Problems (by Xiao-Jun Yang)

Doppler Effect of Time and Space (by Giovanni Zazella)

Poll

Who Will/should Get the Nobel Prize for the Higgs Boson? (by Philip E. Gibbs)

News

Post-Higgs LHC Update (by Philip E. Gibbs)

It is tempting to say that this rules out standard model physics in this region but I think it is too soon to draw such a conclusion. It may be that there is a SM Higgs boson at say 140 GeV but the resolution is not sufficiently good to get a clean signal there, or more data may see the line fluctuate down to the no signal level. It is important to remember that we are still at the stage where just a few signal events have a big effect on the curve. More detail will emerge with more data. Furthermore, the plot above is only an approximation that does not properly take into account all uncertainties and correlations. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/246

Did the Higgs Signal Fade? & the Best Higgs Plots Revealed (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: The CMS excess did not fade at all, the difference was due to a change in the analysis from Cut-based to MVA-based for the dominant WW channel. The ATLAS combinations when reconstructed consistently only show a small decrease in the excesses. Not the large decrease advertised. Higgs boson hints are still alive. What is particularly interesting now is the bump at 140 GeV. Some people said that this excess came mostly from the WW channel, yet when the WW channel is removed the bump is still there with nearly 2-sigma significance. The two bumps peaking at 118 GeV and 128 GeV are also the right size for a Higgs signal but error bands are still too big. Any of these bumps could be statistical fluctuations but it is very unlikely that they all are. With current data available in the high-resolution channels it is not yet possible to draw robust conclusions, but I think I have demonstrated that this will be the best way to find the Higgs with future data. I hope the experimenters will take note and produce similar plots from the official data. Updated results with 2.5/fb could appear within weeks and we will see where the three candidate bumps are heading. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/247

New Higgs Combos from ATLAS and CMS (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: As we wait for the Lepton-Photon conference to begin, ATLAS have released some new Higgs combination plots in a conference note. These have added 2.3/fb in the H->ZZ->4l channel and 1.7/fb in the H->WW->llνν channels. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/244

Higgs Excluded from 130 GeV to 480 GeV (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: There are a few interesting workshops and conferences on today that are presenting results from LHC and Tevatron. In particular the “Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics” meeting at CERN all this week is the most likely place to look for new results. http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/245

Did the Buddha Believe in God? (by Nadeem Haque): Abstract: It is argued that Buddha, contrary to being an atheist or a person who never answered or avoided answering the question of God’s existence, as some of the present day Buddhist sects and most Western and Eastern scholars portray, also believed in One God. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/145

Meaningless or Purposeful? (by Nadeem Haque, Mehran Banaei): Abstract: We reflect as to whether there is a purpose behind the Big Bang, and ask such questions as: what role are we to play, if any, in the realm that has evolved afterwards? Did nature evolve from the Big Bang merely for subservience to Man? http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/146

The Magic of Existence (by Nadeem Haque): Abstract: A collection of my poems expresses the “magic of existence”. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/147

Prophet Abraham and the Causal Loop: A New Perspective on a Landmark Historical Event & Its Universal Implications (by Nadeem Haque): Abstract: In this article, we shall discuss causal loop (FPCL) which is a concept that is both fascinating and complex. Here, we can only scratch the surface of it. However, it shows us that our understanding of space and time and the human mind will continue to advance, where more light will be shed, if only we were to think logically and objectively. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/141

Concise Proofs of God & Consciousness (by Zeshan Shahbaz): Abstract: In this article, we shall provide concise proofs of God and Consciousness. It is logically concluded that for any thing to 'be' is preceded by its cause. It is further concluded that there is one, limitless, eternal, incomparable, conscious Mover to the universe. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/142

Bridge between Science & Religion (by Nadeem Haque, Mehran Banaei): Abstract: Taking the route of intelligence, rather than that of chance, it is suggested that Qur’an can be used as a guide and motivator to dissolve the artificial boundary between the sacred and the profane, science and divinity, through a natural rapprochement based on the correlation between causality in nature and pristine revelation. Inevitably, such a rapprochement would further set the stage for transforming human thought towards a unitary understanding of the whole purpose of creation and man’s role within the vastness of cosmic order. In fact, anyone imbued with such an outlook would not be searching for a pristine revelation to act as a bridge between science and religion. That which is one, needs no bridge. Indeed, in this vein of reality, it can certainly be proclaimed that science is truly religion and religion truly science. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/143

Introducing the Virtual Reality Conjecture (by Brian Whitworth): Abstract: We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time would just "be", but in relativity, space contracts and time dilates. Likewise objective "things" should just inherently exist, but the entities of quantum theory are probability of existence smears, that spread, tunnel, superpose and entangle in physically impossible ways. Cosmology even tells us that our entire physical universe just "popped up", from nowhere, about 14 billion years ago. This is not how an objectively real world should behave! Yet traditional alternatives don't work much better. That the world is just an illusion of the mind doesn't explain its consistent realism and Descartes dualism, that another reality beyond the physical exists, just doubles the existential problem. It is time to consider an option we might normally dismiss out of hand. This essay explores the virtual reality conjecture, that the physical world is the digital output of non-physical quantum processing. It finds it neither illogical, nor unscientific, nor incompatible with current physics. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/181

Table of Contents http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/issue/view/25

Articles

Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality: Part 1 (by Chris King)

Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality: Part 2 (by Chris King)

Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality: Part 3 (by Chris King)

Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality: Part 4 (by Chris King)

Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 (by Iona Miller).

Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 (by Iona Miller).

Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 (by Iona Miller).

Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 (by Iona Miller).

Central to this viewpoint is 1) a non-materialism which indicates that the ultimate process of reality is of the nature of mind; 2) the assertion that the ultimate nature of reality lies between the extremes of ‘existence’ and ‘non-existence’, ‘eternalism’ and ‘nihilism’; 3) the assertion that the epiontic mechanism operates as ‘kamma’, or ‘karma’, a central mechanism for the functioning of conditioned samsaric (cycle of dissatisfactory lives) reality. On the basis of these fundamental insights the doctrines of ‘rebirth’ and ‘dependent origination’ are shown to be crucial metaphysical components of the overall early Buddhist worldview as taught by the Buddha. These doctrines are also shown to be consistent with modern quantum theory. On the basis of this investigation recent claims that the 3-lifetimes model of dependent origination is mistaken are shown to be desperately misleading. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/177

The Quantum Truth of the Buddhist Metaphysics of the ‘Two Truths’ or ‘Two Realities’ (by Graham P. Smetham): Abstract: According to the ‘Buddhist’ writer Stephen Batchelor the core Buddhist doctrine of the ‘two truths’ or ‘two realities’ is a major mistake on the part of Buddhist practitioners and philosophers throughout the ages. Although this doctrine has been central to Buddhist thinking since the time of the Buddha, Batchelor says that it is a serious mistake, and is completely unscientific. This article show that it is Batchelor who is desperately mistaken because modern quantum theory has validated the metaphysical claim that the ‘classical’ or ‘conventional’ world is an illusion which is derived from the deeper quantum realm. Thus the division into the ‘classical’ realm and the ‘quantum’ realm maps onto the Buddhist distinction between the ‘conventional’ mode of reality and the ‘ultimate’ mode of reality. Far from Buddhist philosophy being ‘unscientific’, it is Batchelor who displays ignorance of modern science. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/178