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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does "it is possible to get" mean "it is possible to get the standard cocktail party"?
And "three-quarters of the way through" mean "after the three-quarters of the book (the writers begin to admit with sheepish apology)"?
Context:
But while photons are easy to pluck from the electromagnetic field, Higgs bosons
are immensely hard to pull from their field. In fact, that takes a whopping 125
gigaelectronvolts to be precise – which is why nothing less than the $9 billion LHC
could do it.
All of this is about as far from the standard cocktail party description of how the
Higgs generates mass as it is possible to get. And it is worth the price of the book
alone. Mind you, three-quarters of the way through, Lederman and Hill do belatedly
admit, with a sheepish apology, that the Higgs explains only a minuscule part of
mass. The lion's share – 99 per cent – comes from the strong nuclear force and
has nothing whatsoever to do with the weakly interacting Higgs. But then, this fact
has been omitted by almost all particle physicists in their eagerness to big up the
Higgs to the media.
Context:
But while photons are easy to pluck from the electromagnetic field, Higgs bosons
are immensely hard to pull from their field. In fact, that takes a whopping 125
gigaelectronvolts to be precise – which is why nothing less than the $9 billion LHC
could do it.
All of this is about as far from the standard cocktail party description of how the
Higgs generates mass as it is possible to get. And it is worth the price of the book
alone. Mind you, three-quarters of the way through, Lederman and Hill do belatedly
admit, with a sheepish apology, that the Higgs explains only a minuscule part of
mass. The lion's share – 99 per cent – comes from the strong nuclear force and
has nothing whatsoever to do with the weakly interacting Higgs. But then, this fact
has been omitted by almost all particle physicists in their eagerness to big up the
Higgs to the media.
Top answer
NL888 Does "it is possible to get" mean "it is possible to get the standard cocktail party"? No, as far as it is possible to get/be from the 'cocktail party' description of the process. That is, it is a very detailed, scientific description, not like what would hear from a dilettante at a party.
- NL888 Does "it is possible to get" mean "it is possible to get the standard cocktail party"?
- No, as far as it is possible to get/be from the 'cocktail party' description of the process.
- That is, it is a very detailed, scientific description, not like what would hear from a dilettante at a party.
- NL888 d "three-quarters of the way through" mean "after the three-quarters of the book (the writers begin to admit with sheepish apology)"?
- Yes.
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NL888Does "it is possible to get" mean "it is possible to get the standard cocktail party"?No, as far as it is possible to get/be from the 'cocktail party' description of the process. That is, it is a very detailed, scientific description, not like what would hear from a dilettante at a party.
NL888d "three-quarters of the way through
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