Little by little, another liberal emerges from the bubble

[wdmso]

folks at the Large Hadron Collider have now confirmed that the newly discovered particle is definitely the Higgs boson as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. On the one hand, this is obviously a huge win for science — but on the other, there will be many scientists who are disappointed that, yet again, the Standard Model has held up to another round of immense scrutiny. If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model — supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy — then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for.

Higgs Boson analogy re affirmed my observation it was found but not a game changer they or you presented to be

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by wdmso

folks at the Large Hadron Collider have now confirmed that the newly discovered particle is definitely the Higgs boson as predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. On the one hand, this is obviously a huge win for science — but on the other, there will be many scientists who are disappointed that, yet again, the Standard Model has held up to another round of immense scrutiny. If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model — supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy — then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for.

Higgs Boson analogy re affirmed my observation it was found but not a game changer they or you presented to be

As usual, you cherry pick. Yes, it fits within the Standard Model. It was the calculating through that model that birthed the notion that such a particle could exist. Whatever anyone expected it to be is not the relevant point. Until it was found, there was much discrediting of the notion that it existed. And having been found, it greatly adds to scientific knowledge. The "looking for the needle in a haystack" (as what science is often about) was important and was a profitable scientific advancement.

Your notion that looking for and finding a needle in a haystack proves nothing is total bunk.

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by detbuch

As usual, you cherry pick. Yes, it fits within the Standard Model. It was the calculating through that model that birthed the notion that such a particle could exist. Whatever anyone expected it to be is not the relevant point. Until it was found, there was much discrediting of the notion that it existed. And having been found, it greatly adds to scientific knowledge. The "looking for the needle in a haystack" (as what science is often about) was important and was a profitable scientific advancement.

Your notion that looking for and finding a needle in a haystack proves nothing is total bunk.

funny now you defend scientific advancement.

Just stop trying to sell the needles you "find" as watershed moments or gotcha pieces to support you narrative..and narrow world view ...