Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else

Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by fhars on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:48PM (#31755704)

The problem here is that the most favoured hypothesis currently is "there is nothing there that can be discovered with any accelerator that can be built using less than 80% of the world's GDP over the next 50 years." And all the valuable "nothing" we currently find just supports the hypothesis and that there is no point in formulating additional hypotheses.

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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by bpye on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:30AM (#31762448)

I'm curious, what are the experiments we could run if we had for example 80% of the world's GDP?

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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by adamsmith143 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:12PM (#31767731)

Lots of Grand Unified Theory candidates become interesting at extremely high energy levels and many of them assume the various fundamental forces will merge. You can test these theories at sufficiently high energy levels.

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