RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
August 6, 2016 at 1:03 am
(August 6, 2016 at 12:51 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(August 5, 2016 at 10:20 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: 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.
True, it only appears to be closer. My point is that I don't think it's a blow, it may only be a neutral discovery. This isn't a hindrance to the advancement of science, it just means it won't advance in this particular direction.
It must be a blow to certain physicists who really thought that that original data was more than an anomaly. But I don't think it's a blow to science in general.
Yeah, I agree with that. Now I don't know why we were arguing.
