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> She also explains the ideas behind her views (which comes down to "particle physics are no longer useful") This comment is in bad faith. She says the problem
by ogogmad 4y ago
> She also explains the ideas behind her views (which comes down to "particle physics are no longer useful")
This comment is in bad faith. She says the problem is lack of progress since the 1970s. She claims that either: The theories produced since then have been falsified, OR that they have been made unfalsifiable (and she names SUSY as an example of the latter). She says that she's a particle physicist hoping for the field to make progress - but she doesn't think it will do that until it makes some big changes, which she suggests.
- tayo42 4y agoWas the Higgs boson discovery not progress in particle physics? Wasn't that only like 10 years ago?
- ogogmad 4y agoTheoretical particle physics. This is yet another comment in bad faith, because you haven't read the article.
- tayo42 4y agoLol what bad faith? How? I read the article and the guardian article yesterday... All I did was ask a clarifying question. The world isn't out to get you
- mcphage 4y agoIIRC Supersymmetry predicted one mass for the Higgs boson, String theory predicted a different mass, and the measured mass turned out to be in the middle.