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August 17, 2016
You can’t trust the judgement of scientists whose future funding depends on their continued optimism.
The cosmological constant isn’t natural. The Higgs mass isn’t natural. The standard model isn’t pretty, and the concordance model isn’t simple. Grand unification failed. It failed again. And yet we haven’t drawn any consequences from this: Particle physicists are still playing today by the same rules as in 1973. For the last ten years you’ve been told that the LHC must see some new physics besides the Higgs because otherwise nature isn’t “natural” – a technical term invented to describe the degree of numerical coincidence of a theory. I’ve been laughed at when I explained that I don’t buy into naturalness because it’s a philosophical criterion, not a scientific one. But on that matter I got the last laugh: Nature, it turns out, doesn’t like to be told what’s presumably natural. Backreaction: The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 17, 2016 7:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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