I haven’t really been keeping up with the particle physics community, what is the “next big thing” they’re looking for? In lieu of a single “next big thing” that would be comparable to the Higgs boson, what kind of things are they really looking for at the LHC these days?
I know that we can make it, doesn’t mean it’s fully understood. I also know that in a sense it’s nothing really special - but still, why do we live in a matter universe?
Or maybe they’ve really been looking for the van with antimatter for the last fourteen years.
Some desperate delivery person crying in relief when they finally find the delivery entrance, and the scientists: “well, now we can actually start this whole operation”
Such particles might have ridiculously high energies that the LHC has not yet been able to reach, and if there actually is a higher-level particle zoo like the Standard Model, it might be that things like Dark Matter are part of, if not all of it.
Form what I’ve heard, it’s less “might” and more “probably do”, and the particle accelerator you’d need to find them if they exist all the way up there would be the size of the whole solar system, or something. Basically, high-energy physics is not a good career path right now.
I haven’t really been keeping up with the particle physics community, what is the “next big thing” they’re looking for? In lieu of a single “next big thing” that would be comparable to the Higgs boson, what kind of things are they really looking for at the LHC these days?
Antimatter and finding the source of the asymmetry?
They drove a van with 90 anti-protons around the CERN campus a couple weeks back. Did you mean dark matter?
I know that we can make it, doesn’t mean it’s fully understood. I also know that in a sense it’s nothing really special - but still, why do we live in a matter universe?
Or maybe they’ve really been looking for the van with antimatter for the last fourteen years.
Some desperate delivery person crying in relief when they finally find the delivery entrance, and the scientists: “well, now we can actually start this whole operation”
Supersymmetry is probably the next big thing.
Such particles might have ridiculously high energies that the LHC has not yet been able to reach, and if there actually is a higher-level particle zoo like the Standard Model, it might be that things like Dark Matter are part of, if not all of it.
Form what I’ve heard, it’s less “might” and more “probably do”, and the particle accelerator you’d need to find them if they exist all the way up there would be the size of the whole solar system, or something. Basically, high-energy physics is not a good career path right now.