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What are the implications of the Higgs being discovered in 2000?

• ISL 7y ago
  High-energy particle physics would be more than a decade ahead of where it is now. Moreover, as SSC was planned as a 40 TeV machine, and LHC reaches 14 TeV now (at presumably much higher luminosity), SSC might have discovered something that still has not been observed.
  • jchallis 7y ago
    There is also an excellent chance that the standard model is the story up to 100TeV and these expensive programs take away attention from better science endeavors.
• papreclip 7y ago
  This super-high energy stuff is generally a boondoggle. You could scale up the energies involved by another 2 orders of magnitude and get precise experimental data describing a new, even more ephemeral state of matter. Any practical benefit to the human race will be collateral damage ("we got better at building magnets and detectors because our toy demanded them")