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Your reply seems to indicate that this is a yawn, but while the article is a bit hyperbolic, it seems to me that experimental evidence of a new, hitherto unfors
by gfodor 10y ago
Your reply seems to indicate that this is a yawn, but while the article is a bit hyperbolic, it seems to me that experimental evidence of a new, hitherto unforseen particle is about as disruptive of an event one can expect in particle physics, no?
- pdonis 10y ago> Your reply seems to indicate that this is a yawn No, just that it's not the kind of event the article is trying to portray it as. > it seems to me that experimental evidence of a new, hitherto unforseen particle is about as disruptive of an event one can expect in particle physics, no? No, it's not disruptive. What has been disruptive has been the several decades without any new experimental results that could help particle physicists to extend their models. Now we might finally be back to the way science is supposed to be done: building theoretical models using experimental data as a guide. This is what particle physicists have been hoping for; it's not a disruption at all.
- gfodor 10y agoUh, isn't a situation where something that has been going on for several decades suddenly changes the very definition of 'disruptive'? :)
- pdonis 10y ago> isn't a situation where something that has been going on for several decades suddenly changes the very definition of 'disruptive'? Not if the sudden change is exactly the one that everyone in the field has been working for and hoping for.