Before the Big Bang? Supersymmetry dead so far (Origins)

by David Turell , Monday, August 29, 2016, 19:03 (2795 days ago) @ dhw
edited by David Turell, Monday, August 29, 2016, 19:52

dhw: If there are major problems not solved by the standard model (as there were with the geocentric model of the universe), we must accept the possibility that the standard model may be wrong, and those aspects of it that are correct may have to be reshaped into a new pattern. But that really isn't the point of our discussion, is it? “Who ordered that?” is the real point. And no matter what new discoveries are made, and no matter what pattern is formed, in the composition of the universe as in the history of evolution, you will look for God and find him. Who knows, you may be right.-You still don't understand. What the LHC does is increase its energy level to discover new particles. They theoretically comprise what is not in the current circumscribed standard model. The Higgs which ended this segment of exploration was not as heavy as theorized, but it has been carefully studied and accepted as fitting into the model. No one knows what new particles might be, whether they fit current theories or not. View this area of research like Columbus discovering the New World. What will be added will be new and more than likely not change anything now known as old info, except as to how he old will relate to the new.-I should mention something else, a book, The God Particle, by Leon Lederman. 1993, Nobel Prize winner) touting the super collider being built in Texas (never funded fully or completed, but over twice the size of the LHC. The whole book is a history of atom smashing, while touting that the Higgs must be found. He was looking over the horizon. That is what is happening now.