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So weird this talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/james_beacham_how_we_explore_unanswered_questions_in_physics Particles and Cosmic rays have been detected for more than 100 years and he talks like we have just discovered a new planet. Fact is that we have been already going through the fine sand for dec...

Summary: The LHC found something new and surprising in every year so far. You sound like a gambling addict. Look at your list, aside from the Higgs you hardly found anything. You simply can't and won't stop. :mrgreen: Oh and sure the World Wide Web isn't the same as the internet, I am sorry. :oops:

Sure, colliders have been great … but like Ethan said they aren't going to reveal any new physics. Regarding CERN giving us the internet that is a little pretentious don't you think. You should read Walter Isaacson's book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital...

Fair enough, but this brings us back to Ethan's first line:

It means that colliders aren’t the answer. It means the LHC won’t reveal new physics …

There are still some details to be 'noted' but collidors aren't teaching us anything special, the bang for the buck ratio is pretty low.

The same applies to all other properties - spin, parity, branching ratios, cross sections, angular correlations, ... - they do not change over time. Well at some point (~now) you start ending up with something like the 3 body problem, where you can keep on collecting data but it is no longer adding...

You are right. I was looking at the part where he used the weasel word 'might': "What's the takeaway? That the Standard Model might be all our particle colliders can access in our lifetime." Meteorologists measure daily rainfall and sunshine, which is similar to your daily 'measurements of particle ...

There are several physicists in high-energy physics with pessimistic outlooks. The difference to Ethan Siegel: they do not rule out the possibility to find something (they just think it is unlikely), and they have actual physics arguments. Ethan said the same thing, that it is unlikely. His conclus...

Well of course hardly anyone 'within' the field of high-energy particle physics is going to be critical about their own bread and butter. … and sure you can keep on looking through the data to find something, just like SETI keeps looking for aliens. It starts to fall in the roam of pseudoscience. "i...

What, this early, still a few weeks to go!

Anyway best wishes to you to.

It seems like you're not able to figure out what the comments are about. It leads to his original post and opinion where he wrote: "What's the takeaway? That the Standard Model might be all our particle colliders can access in our lifetime. It’s not the new, exciting discoveries that are going to ge...

A blog comment as source, seriously? Who is this "Anonymous Coward" (sic!) and what makes them so sure about their conclusion? The comment is related to the first link I posted, if you had followed the link on his name you would have gone there directly, and you would have noticed that his/her(?) b...

And additionally: It means that colliders aren’t the answer. It means the LHC won’t reveal new physics, and that particle creation, decays and branching ratios won’t shed the light we need them to at reachable energies. But there are always indirect methods to probe new physics. We will have to rely...

LHC's Newest Data: A Victory For The Standard Model, Defeat For New Physics

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswitha ... 4302c962f5

Looks like it's time to start packing up.

Actual science: https://youtu.be/gOyusJVKxvc

Virtual particles are a mathematical tool only. Virtual particles are real, but they aren't persé particles, they are more like vibrations, waves, see this article by professor Matt Strassler: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/virtual-particles-what-are-they/ ...