As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite particles?”, I realize that the reason the question is posed so often is down to how we have portrayed progress in particle physics to the wider world. We often talk about progress in terms of discovering new particles, and it often is. Studying a new, very heavy particle…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/why-standard-model-of-particle-physics-is-broken
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