Sure, it’s for real, I presume, but supremely unsatisfying. Like the expert knowing everything about nothing. This whole realm of thinking just stretches out into the aether.
The exciting thing is the machine itself, and the interactions it creates, which are largely quark-gluon plasm balls, AFAIU. There was talk at one point that they wouldn’t be able to see through the “fog” of these things. Not sure how that worked out.
I'm going to put my foot down when they tell us their machines aren't sensitive enough to find indirect evidence for a certain thing, but that they do have indirect evidence that indirect evidence exists. That'll be too much even for me, lol!
Still steaming about Clinton nixing a LHC in Texas.