I'm a physicist, but was never smart enough to grok particle physics. Today I work on measurement instruments. Still, I think breaking the standard model is a

I'm a physicist, but was never smart enough to grok particle physics. Today I work on measurement instruments. Still, I think breaking the standard model is a good thing. It means there's more physics to be discovered. Like Tolstoy said about happy families, successful physics theories are boring. In fact, if a fundamental theory is too successful, physicists start to get restless. The people who have a problem with breaking the standard model are those who were looking for a perfect final theory, or who wasted their time looking for its philosophical implications.