Discussion from a couple of days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238197" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238197</a>
Wasn't the nightmare scenario that the LHC would create a black hole that would swallow the entire solar system?<p>The case of no new physics "just" mean that they'll have to start looking else where. Their job just got a little harder, and while I can appreciate how annoying that can be, it's hardly a nightmare.
Seeing this headline makes me think a black hole has been created and we're all going to die. Thankfully, this is not the case.<p>edit: LHC webcams, interesting: <a href="http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html</a>
> We’ve maneuvered ourselves into a dead end by relying on aesthetic guidance to decide which experiments are the most promising.<p>What other alternatives are there?<p>Also, i wonder , now that LHC has become "boring" , what options are there for repurposing it?
Isn't this really the "dream" scenario??<p>The current state is that we have evidence that the current theories are not correct which leaves a gap for new theories to fill.<p>Sounds like an exciting area to be working in right now if you ask me (unfortunately, I'm not!).
The true nightmare scenario will become true when advancing from plateau of scientific advancements will become too hard for human minds. Maybe it's impossible for people to comprehend or navigate in ideas located above some level of complexity, the same way most animals can't notice themselves in a mirror. So far our progress has been quite impressive, but what if there's some sort of human "Moore's Law" for science, where further advancements without AI will be close to impossible?
Over the years I was slowly beginning to become convinced that the abstractions of relativistic model are just not compatible with all other models we have. Not negating the correctness of it's results, but I kinda think that it should be redefined so it conforms better with the rest of the models. Alas, it has become de facto a state religion and any attempts at discussion about it end up with being laughed at
Also last month on her blog: Why the LHC is such a disappointment: A delusion by name “naturalness”.<p><a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/why-lhc-is-such-disappointment-delusion.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">http://backreaction.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/why-lhc-is-such-...</a>