Do we recognise every thing only because it is a thing - because it matches a concept we accept, or create? Should we clap our hands if we believe in the Higgs boson? There's news, maybe, from the lords and ladies of the CERN rings - potential Peter Pans, ageless in the textbooks.
Update: The crow of the Pan! The Wise find something true, at least until it's falsified, assuming - as per the above - that, in practice, it is falsifiable. There's a live feed here.
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Update: The crow of the Pan! The Wise find something true, at least until it's falsified, assuming - as per the above - that, in practice, it is falsifiable. There's a live feed here.
2 comments:
I've been trying to follow this since they started presenting this morning, but I really don't know enough to grasp a lot of the maths. Looks very positive so far, but my biggest reaction was to the Atlas results power point using comic sans. Genius.
They're certainly giving us a show, and it's a fine story. That said, they presumably need to keep the funding high now that this particular stage of this quest is ending, and winning the public over would seem to help. The lack of a definitive answer could be seen as adding to that impression. The most interesting mainstream response I've seen so far came from Sean Carroll, who wrote: "Full employment for both experimentalists and theorists!"
Building on your point about following it all, it is a pity so few of us can fully understand, or ask meaningful questions. With so many institutions under the microscope lately, and being found lacking, can we risk leaving big science so unaccountable?
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