Draft:Leucippity
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Leucippity (/luˈsɪpɪti/) is a word to describe a phenomena that was predicted long before it was discovered or invented.[1]
The word was invented by Nobel Prize winner in physics Sheldon Lee Glashow, who suggested it as a complementary word to Serendipity. The etymology of the word is based on the Greek philosopher Leucippus, who (with his student Democritus) predicted atoms more than two millennia before their existence were generally accepted.
An example of leucippity is the 1964 prediction by Peter Higgs and others of the Higgs mechanism and associated particle [2][3][4], which was discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS[5] and CMS[6] collaborations at CERN's LHC accelerator. Incidentally, in the same year Arthur C. Clark predicted smart phones[7], which saw the light of day on a similar time scale, which is another case of leucippity.
References
[edit]- ^ Glashow, Sheldon Lee (2023-06-08). "Serendipity and Leucippity" (PDF). Global Journal of Engineering Sciences. doi:10.33552/GJES.2023.11.000757. ISSN 2641-2039. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ Englart, F; Brout, R (1964). "Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons". Physics Review Letters. 13 (9): 321–23. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..321E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.321.
- ^ Higgs, P (1964). "Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons". Physical Review Letters. 13 (16): 508–509. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..508H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.508.
- ^ Guralnik, G.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1964). "Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles". Physical Review Letters. 13 (20): 585–587. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..585G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585.
- ^ ATLAS Collaboration (2012-09-17). "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC". Phys. Lett. B. 716: 1–29. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ CMS Collaboration (2012-08-17). "Observation of a New Boson at a Mass of 125 GeV with the CMS Experiment at the LHC". Phys. Lett. B. 716: 30–61. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ BBC interview for the program Horizon in 1964.