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More to the point, the LHC has not answered the following questions: were we correct in thinking dark matter and dark energy exist (ie, physics did not accident
by DiabloD3 8y ago
More to the point, the LHC has not answered the following questions: were we correct in thinking dark matter and dark energy exist (ie, physics did not accidentally mistake the map for the territory), that we were correct in thinking black holes actually do exist (and it isn't an entirely different phenomenon involving extremely high energy plasmoids or something even weirder), and that the big bang actually happened (and that the universe is indeed expanding).
- codethief 8y agoYou can formulate all kinds of questions a given experiment like the LHC didn't answer but unless the experiment actually set out to answer these questions in the first place, you're mostly just talking about the empty set. Namely, the LHC was never directly concerned with black holes, the Big Bang, dark energy and dark matter. (Outside of the possibility that completely new physics would be found and that this would somehow lead to an explanation of dark matter, dark energy and/or quantum gravity down the road.) Moreover, I'm also not sure why you're casting doubt on dark energy (= the cosmological constant), the Big Bang and black holes. There are certainly many aspects about them we don't fully understand yet but their existence is generally not disputed.