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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 goo
by 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 agoI don't think an outcome that would lead to less funding for this kind of physics would be necessarily bad.