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As with the other recent anomalous results it's reassuring that there are these unexplained results still out there. The concern of physicists (and I'm many ye
by richardjordan 14y ago
As with the other recent anomalous results it's reassuring that there are these unexplained results still out there. The concern of physicists (and I'm many years removed from being one) is in pushing experiments like the LHC, finding what we predicted and nothing more.
This points to new physics and that's a good thing. The problem with the staggeringly successful and precise "Standard Model" is the number of hand-tweaked variables you have to include to make it work. Absent new physics, if this became all we could experimentally demonstrate, we'd be left with solely anthropic reasoning (we just happen to exist in a universe compatible with our existence).
So yay for positrons!
- rrmm 14y agoThe interesting thing is that more of the anomalous results are coming from astronomical observations and in general non-collider experiments. Colliders have been really successful where they can be applied and have given a consistent footing to build upon, but there seems to be large areas still to explore at the weakly-interacting end of the things.
- richardjordan 14y agoWell, we're getting to energies where colliders are approaching some pretty expensive limits and space provides much better natural accelerators for us to study.