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On the contrary, I remember a quote from some physicist before LHC went live saying something like "if the LHC finds nothing that we've been predicting that wil

On the contrary, I remember a quote from some physicist before LHC went live saying something like "if the LHC finds nothing that we've been predicting that will be a more incredible find (than proving the Higgs or Graviton), because that means we're completely wrong". The LHC not finding particles in the areas we're predicting is simply telling us that our predictions were wrong. Time will tell, the LHC is still relatively new and is producing a metric ton of data. What we find in the next few years will radically change our understanding of the cosmos, I'm sure.

VladRussian 15y ago
>What we find in the next few years will radically change our understanding of the cosmos, I'm sure. every time current "standard model" was incorrect for some fringe/edge cases a new theory was born that included the old "standard model" as an edge case. Lets this chain continue ( i personally feel that monstrosity of superstring theory is an indication that we've reached the breaking point :)
jpallen 15y ago
If the LHC finds nothing it would be interesting but I don't think it would be a good step forward for physics. Of course any step in the right direction is good, but we would have no where to specifically look, and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding. A much better outcome would be to find something exotic that can spark research in the right direction. At the moment we have many ideas past the standard model but no way to know which to pursue with any seriousness. Of course, discussion of what would be good or bad doesn't matter much. It will find what it finds (or doesn't)
- felipemnoa 15y ago
  >>and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding On the contrary, now we can stop wasting man hours on incorrect theorems and start looking for the right ones. This is really interesting because it means that the universe is much different than we imagined.
- eru 15y ago
  I don't think an outcome that would lead to less funding for this kind of physics would be necessarily bad.

VladRussian 15y ago

>What we find in the next few years will radically change our understanding of the cosmos, I'm sure. every time current "standard model" was incorrect for some fringe/edge cases a new theory was born that included the old "standard model" as an edge case. Lets this chain continue ( i personally feel that monstrosity of superstring theory is an indication that we've reached the breaking point :)

jpallen 15y ago

If the LHC finds nothing it would be interesting but I don't think it would be a good step forward for physics. Of course any step in the right direction is good, but we would have no where to specifically look, and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding. A much better outcome would be to find something exotic that can spark research in the right direction. At the moment we have many ideas past the standard model but no way to know which to pursue with any seriousness. Of course, discussion of what would be good or bad doesn't matter much. It will find what it finds (or doesn't)

felipemnoa 15y ago
>>and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding On the contrary, now we can stop wasting man hours on incorrect theorems and start looking for the right ones. This is really interesting because it means that the universe is much different than we imagined.
eru 15y ago
I don't think an outcome that would lead to less funding for this kind of physics would be necessarily bad.