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Yep, it turns out our theories are true and there's no magical way to create an anti-gravity field or go faster than light. Disappointing, but definitely not un

Yep, it turns out our theories are true and there's no magical way to create an anti-gravity field or go faster than light. Disappointing, but definitely not unexpected...

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geuis 14y ago
These theories are now further supported by evidence. The Standard Model isn't based on a couple of experiments. Its supported by thousands of independent observations over a multitude of points in physics. There's still a lot of stuff left unexplained, and currently unpredictable by the Standard Model. Dark matter and dark energy are just a couple of them. How the universe even started is still another. The big questions are still unanswered and may well surprise us all. Also remember that there is the Standard Model Higgs boson, the one predicted by theory, and what's just being seen in experimental data. The team doing the announcement the other day were very explicit in saying that they've found a Higgs-like particle, but it may not be exactly the one in the Standard Model. i.e. There may be multiple types of Higgs bosons. Its going to take years of more research to really nail down what's just now being glimpsed. Another good thing to keep in mind is the place of Newtonian physics in the Standard Model. Up until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Newtonian physics were very well understood, and some scientists thought that may well have been all there was to know. Newtonian physics fits nicely inside the Standard Model. Its entirely possible, though who's to say if probable or not, that the current Standard Model will itself fit into an entirely new overarching branch of physics in the decades to come. The LHC will be operating for 3 more months so that even more data can be collected, then will be shut down for about 2 years for repairs and upgrades. When it comes back on line, it will be much, much more powerful and who knows what might be discovered yet.
- JumpCrisscross 14y ago
  Technically, Newtonian physics estimates Einsteinian physics which observes the means of the Standard Model.

Yep, it turns out our theories are true and there's no magical way to create an anti-gravity field or go faster than light. Disappointing, but definitely not unexpected...

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geuis 14y ago

These theories are now further supported by evidence. The Standard Model isn't based on a couple of experiments. Its supported by thousands of independent observations over a multitude of points in physics. There's still a lot of stuff left unexplained, and currently unpredictable by the Standard Model. Dark matter and dark energy are just a couple of them. How the universe even started is still another. The big questions are still unanswered and may well surprise us all. Also remember that there is the Standard Model Higgs boson, the one predicted by theory, and what's just being seen in experimental data. The team doing the announcement the other day were very explicit in saying that they've found a Higgs-like particle, but it may not be exactly the one in the Standard Model. i.e. There may be multiple types of Higgs bosons. Its going to take years of more research to really nail down what's just now being glimpsed. Another good thing to keep in mind is the place of Newtonian physics in the Standard Model. Up until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Newtonian physics were very well understood, and some scientists thought that may well have been all there was to know. Newtonian physics fits nicely inside the Standard Model. Its entirely possible, though who's to say if probable or not, that the current Standard Model will itself fit into an entirely new overarching branch of physics in the decades to come. The LHC will be operating for 3 more months so that even more data can be collected, then will be shut down for about 2 years for repairs and upgrades. When it comes back on line, it will be much, much more powerful and who knows what might be discovered yet.

JumpCrisscross 14y ago
Technically, Newtonian physics estimates Einsteinian physics which observes the means of the Standard Model.