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The physics community does not consider finding the Higgs new physics. Not finding Higgs would've been more exciting, or a more massive / lighter Higgs, etc. T
by dkural 10y ago
The physics community does not consider finding the Higgs new physics. Not finding Higgs would've been more exciting, or a more massive / lighter Higgs, etc. The Higgs showed up exactly as predicted with the predicted mass, so we're stuck with the Standard Model - i.e. no "new physics".
- marcosdumay 10y agoYou don't go into an experiment with the goal to find new physics.
- dkural 10y agoAnd yet, that was precisely one of the stated goals of LHC. Observing things is not a bad way to find new physics: Radiation was observed before there was a theory for it. Electrons were also generated as a "ray" before people had any concept of electrons. We've observed the microwave background without knowing about the big bang, or cosmic expansion. Most new physics starts out as experimental observations. Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the amazing (partial) exceptions.
- marcosdumay 10y agoYou can search for it at any time. But how can you state you will find it when you don't know if it's there? I don't think LHC can be considered a failure on that basis.
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