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Re:The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true by tootie on Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:34PM (#12238693)
It's the old Structure of Scientific Revolution. Standard Model is the current paradigm and we can't break through it until we actually find something that doesn't fit. Everything discovered by LHC fits, therefore we can't get to the next paradigm.
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Re:The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true by mcguire on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:50PM (#12240076)
Perhaps it is a similar situation as cosmology at the time of Copernicus: his theory was manifestly worse than the existing "standard model", but was cleaner, more "beautiful". Getting his model to work brought about the revolution.
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