LARGE HADRON COLLIDER and 'Higgs field' (Was... )

Heh. Dig this article that just appeared today -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080909...icscernbritain...
....and particularly this very poignant excerpt :

"Physicists have long puzzled over how particles acquire mass. In
1964, a British physicist, Peter Higgs, came up with the idea there
must be a background field that would act rather like treacle
(mollases)."

"Background field"?! Oh no. Heresy! :-) That sounds suspiciously like
Gordon Wolter's idea of a `spatial medium` possessing the property of
'hyperfluidity' in sub-relativistic speed regimes, but becoming more
and more "viscous", losing its hyperfluidity, with the onset of
relativistic speeds.

On Sep 9, 10:51*am, oldcoot wrote:
Dig this article that just appeared today -http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080909/sc_afp/sciencephysicscernbritain...
speeds.

Damn !@#$%^&* link. Try this -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080909...g_080909150154