Before the Big Bang? Addendum (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, August 18, 2016, 01:09 (3017 days ago) @ David Turell

Ran into an article that illustrates my point about the need for further discoveries in particle physics:-https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101550-surfer-physicist-wins-superparticle-bet-with-nobel-laureate/-"At least one person is happy that the Large Hadron Collider hasn't found anything recently.-"Garrett Lisi is an independent researcher who hit the headlines in 2007 as the “surfer physicist” with a potential theory of everything. He has now won a $1000 bet with physicist Frank Wilczek, who in 2004 shared a Nobel prize for his work on the strong force, which binds quarks into proton and neutrons.-"The pair made the bet in July 2009, a few months before the LHC began smashing protons together for the first time. Wilczek believed that within six years, the particle accelerator would discover a superparticle - one of a host predicted by a theory called supersymmetry, which posits that every fundamental particle we know of has a much heavier partner.-Comment: We don't 'know' until we discover. Much of the particle zoo was discovered after 1950. What would you have theoretically commented upon in 1949?