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Albert who? + Super-enzymes to eat plastic + Multiverse explains Higgs boson feature?

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Albert Who? Even Einstein had major critics
https://bigthink.com/the-past/einstein-critics/

KEY POINTS: Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity are today widely accepted, but when he first outlined them, there was fierce opposition. One critic claimed that Einstein was attempting to subvert the scientific method, pushing a theory without first properly testing it. Over time, relativity grew entrenched as confirming evidence accrued and its detractors passed away... (MORE - details)


How ‘super-enzymes’ that eat plastics could curb our waste problem
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...te-problem

EXCERPTS: Beaches littered with plastic bottles and wrappers. Marine turtles, their stomachs filled with fragments of plastic. Plastic fishing nets dumped at sea where they can throttle unsuspecting animals. And far out in the Pacific Ocean, an expanse of water more than twice the size of France littered with plastic waste weighing at least 79,000 tonnes.

The plastic pollution problem is distressingly familiar, but many organisations are working to reduce it. Alongside familiar solutions such as recycling, a surprising ally has emerged: micro-organisms. A handful of microbes have evolved the ability to “eat” certain plastics, breaking them down into their component molecules. These tiny organisms could soon play a key role in reducing plastic waste and building a greener economy.

[...] By the mid-2010s plenty of plastic-degrading enzymes were known. The potential was clear to Gabriella Caruso of the Institute for Coastal Marine Environment in Messina, Italy, who wrote in a 2015 review that “microbial degradation of plastic is a promising eco-friendly strategy which represents a great opportunity to manage waste plastic materials with no adverse impacts”.

So why did Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 cause such a stir? “The difference with the 2016 paper was this micro-organism could use the plastic as its sole energy and food source,” says John McGeehan of the University of Portsmouth. “That’s actually quite surprising and it kind of shows evolutionary pressure in action. If you’re the first bacterium in that rubbish pile that suddenly has a taste for plastic, then you’ve got an unlimited food source.” (MORE - missing details)


(related) There is no empirical, scientific evidence for the Multiverse
https://bigthink.com/13-8/multiverse-no-evidence/
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Mind-Bending new multiverse scenario could explain a strange Higgs boson feature
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-existen...s-so-small

INTRO: When researchers at the Large Hadron Collider discovered the elusive Higgs particle in 2012, it was a landmark for particle physics. It solved a very thorny problem, validating and allowing the Standard Model of particle physics to hold.

But, as is often the case with new discoveries, while some questions were neatly answered, others arose. And for the Higgs boson, one of those questions is its mass. According to predictions, the particle ought to be around three times heavier than the 125 gigaelectronvolts it is.

We're not sure why it isn't heavier, but a new paper lays out a fascinating solution. According to physicists Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo of Université Paris Saclay in France and Daniele Teresi of CERN, the problem can be resolved if, at the time of the Big Bang, the Universe consisted of many universes – a multiverse.

Not only do the physicists' calculations solve the mass of the Higgs boson, they also solve a seemingly unrelated problem in the Standard Model: the preservation of symmetry in the strong force that binds the elementary particles that form all normal matter.

The team's model starts the Universe as a multitude of universes. Each universe in this multiverse has a different mass for the Higgs boson – some quite heavy, and some very light.

Then, the physicists calculated how these universes would evolve over time. They found that universes with heavier Higgs [url=bosons became unstable and collapsed very quickly in a "big crunch", in a fraction of a second.

The universes with lighter Higgs bosons survived. Under this scenario, our Universe emerged as perhaps the sole survivor of the catastrophic multiverse crunching, with a very light Higgs boson.

Under this model, something curious emerged. The strong force is... (MORE - details)
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