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Originally Posted by HarryT
Actually, that's the whole point of the excitement about the (probable) detection of the Higgs Boson by the LHC. It is predicted by the Standard Model, and the theory would have been in trouble had it not been there.
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And we would be better off it it hadn't.
Or better yet, if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
So there's still hope.
Physics needs to get back to basics, because a universe with 300 fundamental particles with no underlying explanation why that particular combination and not another--other than the much abused Anthropic principle--is no more insightful than shrugging and saying, "Because."
Too much reliance on data collection and models, not enough on pondering the imponderable. Newton was a philosopher first; maybe modern physicists ought to give it a try. Or read more SF.
