RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 5, 2016 at 10:20 pm
(August 5, 2016 at 8:24 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Is it really bad for physics, though? Doesn't it just mean that our current understanding is closer to reality? Or by bad for science, do you mean 'a lot of excitement just disappeared?'
I don't see how that follows. If a new particle was discovered, science would advance, there's no reason to celebrate that our current understanding appears to be closer to reality, when there's reason to believe it could be even closer.