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The God Particle: The Discovery and Modeling of the Ultimate Prime Particle

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This book exploits Ledermans's book by using the same title. The logic by the author is silly and the conclusions belong in the realm of science fiction. An example of the misstatements is: permanent magnets never lose their magnetism. In the next sentence the author says if you heat a permanent magnet hot enough a permanent magnet loses its magnetism. The author gets one statement right. Since the author says he is not a scientist he doesn't have to worry about his reputation. True, he hasn't any reputation. A simple checker would have pointed out many obvious grammar errors. The author creates a whole new unbelievable science with zerons, zeesecs, and a cosma.

If you are searching for a grand unified theory that explains our universe from galaxies to quantum effects, this book is a must read. Don't underestimate Mr Jaeckel on his background alone. He is very wellinformed about all major experiements and observations relevant for the subject, such as Youngs double slit experiment and Michelson & Morleys experiment.

Ted Jaeckel describes a prime particle which mass requires 10^18 "zerons" to make up one electron. Unbelievable? More believable than parallel universes, 8 dimensional string theories if you ask me. Amongst other, the theory gives a fine explanation of why electrons aparrently do not exist in one particular spot, but rather appear "with some probability" in a certain area as described in Quantum Physics.

If/when the Higgs boson is observed, we will still be far away from a Grand Unified Theory, but creative thinking like Mr Jaeckel presents here might just be what is required to crack the nut.

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Jesper Jørgensen

I clearly was conned by the title of this book. I thought it might provide some up to date information on Lederman's 1993 book by the same title. The number of misstatements about the current state of the science of physics is a clear give away as to how little Mr. Jaeckel understands about this subject. Referring to the emission of light from atoms he dismisses quantum mechanics as a "muddying influence" of "conventional theory". I am under the impression the "standard theory" fully incorporates quantum mechanics. Worse, he describes gravity in Newtonian terms (force acting at a distance) and dismisses Einstein's warping of space as an "unproven theory".

The very premise of the book can have no value unless you are willing to concede Mr. Jaeckel, untrained in physics and without the resources of a university physics department just happens to be smarter than all of the physicists of the last two hundred years put together.

This book is true drivel.

Ted Jaeckel has finally got the story straight. This is a must read for every engineer and would-be engineer being cowed by the scientific/academic community.