Stunned, hear and read attempts to publicize the Higgs particle. It is natural that the most important in elementary particle physics monopolize the attention of journalists dedicated to the disclosure. A small fraction of these journalists know deeply the subject and yet, so autosificiencia present it as inconsistency. An even smaller fraction of them rave and uncontrolled mix scientific ideas with God, with mysteries and unimaginable catastrophes. The really funny thing is that it is the latter-degraded "version of the scientific publication which reaches a large television.
Funny, right? Are so few seconds devoted to science on television that you could imagine that those with the small privilege to disclose in a mass media should have an obsession with truth, for the fair valuation of the achievements and the presentation honest the objectives pursued. It turns out that the demand for visceral passions that supposedly requires television is a sufficient excuse to mislead, to distort, to trivialize the efforts of thousands of researchers.
strange thing is that nothing I say is neither new nor special. We have learned to live with scientific misinformation in the mass media. But I dare say, on this occasion, one thing was different. We are mired in an economic crisis. Many politicians talk about the need to replace an economy based on non-productive speculation by a knowledge-based economy. However, the same media group that advocates This idea is often responsible for the scientific disinformation program has left me stunned. Seeking a word for all this: desdivulgación?, "Antidivulgación?," Mediocrity? Surely any reader has any suggestions most appropriate.
promise never to write a negative tone input. Is useless.
To compensate, I want to say that in my heart, I hope with a passion difficult to define the results of the LHC. If we find the Higgs particle and the Standard Model is confirmed, we will have achieved a top intellectual. The theory of electroweak and strong interactions form a complex construction but accurate and consistent in the world of elementary particles. I think in a sophisticated and incredibly accurate clock. If, on the contrary, we find the Higgs, our theory would fail and should be modified (eg could face dimensions of triviality of the quartic interaction). A clock gear would not be right and we should understand what form it should be replaced. Both options are really exciting. And we know the solution within a very short time.
