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My guess: Those "new secrets" would be in the category of "unknown unknowns"[1]. We don't even know where to look for them, so we looked somewhere we hadn't bef
by neolefty 8y ago
My guess: Those "new secrets" would be in the category of "unknown unknowns"[1]. We don't even know where to look for them, so we looked somewhere we hadn't before—in higher energies. And we used a "known unknown" as a stepping stone—the Higgs, which we were pretty sure existed, and we had an idea of what its properties would be.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
- cshimmin 8y agoWell said. Some particular examples of things we're looking for in this case, however, include supersymmetry, strong gravity / extra dimensions, and dark matter. All of these theories generally can be contrived one way or another to alter the predictions of the standard Higgs theory. But we are also looking everywhere we can and trying to do precise measurements because we may find something surprising as well!