No, that is not inflammatory. Physicists hoped to be wrong about the standard model since the first PETRA energy upgrade. Just look at this conference summary f

No, that is not inflammatory. Physicists hoped to be wrong about the standard model since the first PETRA energy upgrade. Just look at this conference summary from 1981: http://lss.fnal.gov/conf/C810824/p1003.pdf http://lss.fnal.gov/conf/C810824/p1003.pdf (from lss.fnal.gov/conf/C810824/ ) So I predict a new revolution, or phase change, by Christmas 1982. [...] And by a second revolution, I don't just mean already predicted Z's and W's, but evidence anew than Nature's imagination is richer than ours as we cross new frontiers of the unknown. (p. 1004-1005) They were getting quite desperate about finding physics beyond the standard model by the mid of the decade.