I was to skeptical. The Higgs exists. The new data shown at the Moriond conference is convincing.
Now the exciting question arises: Is there anything beyond the standard model? Theorists claim: yes! Experimentalists have not found anything yet.
If there is nothing left, it would mean that we know everything. Of course, we still do not know the origin of the parameters. But if we knew that, we would know everything about the world. Everything? The same claim was made over a century ago; and it was wrong. Is anything different today? We should know more in a few years.
8 March 2013
3 March 2013
How to formulate a long bet about unification
I just discovered www.longbets.org. We can put long-term bets there. Can we formulate a long bet, to challenge modern particle theorists? Here is a proposal:
Prediction 1:A more satirical proposal:
No decay, no reaction, and no effect that is incompatible with the standard model of particle physics will be discovered.
Prediction 2: String theorists and supersymmetry researchers will be depressed for their remaining life, because no evidence for supersymmetry, higher dimensions, or strings will be discovered.
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