t, H, W, Z again

(A continuation of "t, H, W, Z".)

A recent paper informs us that 

(m_H)² + (m_W)² + (m_Z)² + Σ_quarks(m_q)² + Σ_leptons(m_l)² = (HiggsVEV)²

... almost identical to the formula

(m_H)² + (m_W)² + (m_Z)² + (Σ_quarksm_q)² + (Σ_leptonsm_l)² = (HiggsVEV)²

which appeared as part of the very first exercise of physics numerology examined by this blog (in July 2011), due to A. Garcés Doz. (I cannot find the formula in any of his papers at vixra.org - search for "author=doz" for a full listing - but perhaps it's there too.)

The similarity may be attributed to the fact that the top mass, m_t, is so much greater than all the other fermions, that it hardly matters whether you add the masses and square them, or square the masses and then add them. Just the following formula still works quite well:

(m_H)² + (m_W)² + (m_Z)² + (m_t)² = (HiggsVEV)²

Curiously, when Garcés Doz posted his formula two years ago, he was using m_H = 119 GeV, a value which must have come from someone's supersymmetric model; but the value of the Higgs VEV is then off by a few GeV. It actually works much better using m_H = 125 GeV, the measured value; so he could have actually predicted the Higgs mass using this formula.

(Caution: I have been a little careless in checking these facts and calculations; will check them more closely, later.)

Cosmic numerology from Texas

Some guy from Texas thinks he can obtain the non-integer part of the cosmic parameter "N_eff" using the formula (4/7)(43/57)^4/3. "There's no crazy like Texas crazy"!