So are the Gardes.
Knights of Sidonia is a great show.
Posted on 10/02/2017 4:38:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The problem in the Standard Model lies in the fact that the measured mass of the Higgs is about 100 million billion times smaller than what quantum mechanics suggests it should be. From the standpoint of the Standard Model, this can be true only as a result of an extremely unlikely coincidence involving the values of some of the universe’s fundamental building blocks. ....Physicists call this situation the “hierarchy problem” and see it as evidence that the Standard Model is only an approximation of a more comprehensive theory that would explain the Higgs mass “naturally”—as the result of some mechanism other than an apparent miracle.
Supersymmetry has long been the leading candidate for the more comprehensive theory. It solves the hierarchy problem by means of new particles—one partner particle for each particle in the Standard Model. But with no sign of superpartners emerging from the LHC, some physicists are seriously considering the possibility that particles addressing the hierarchy problem belong to what’s called a hidden sector.
Raman Sundrum, a physicist at the University of Maryland, devised ways to solve the naturalness problem using hidden sectors.
A hidden sector is a family of particles that may interact with each other but which don’t feel the effects of the Standard Model’s three forces—strong, electromagnetic and weak. They don’t directly interact with ordinary matter, which makes them very difficult to detect.
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... Based on the data collected so far, as many as a quarter of the LHC’s Higgs bosons could be slipping into the shadows of a hidden sector.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
From the standpoint of the Standard Model, this can be true only as a result of an extremely unlikely coincidence involving the values of some of the universe’s fundamental building blocks. ....Physicists call this situation the “hierarchy problem” and see it as evidence that the Standard Model is only an approximation of a more comprehensive theory that would explain the Higgs mass “naturally”—as the result of some mechanism other than an apparent miracle.
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More evidence for fine tuning.
Perhaps the Strong Anthropic Principle is true.
In a hasty retreat, the all electric vehicle proponents realized that wind, solar and bio cannot not supply 10% of the current demand let alone a future with only electric vehicles ...
What kind of Boson is Ditch?
ObiWan warned against going to the Dark Side.
It will take us a long time to figure it out.
So are the Gardes.
Knights of Sidonia is a great show.
Thanks BenLurkin, I needed a good laugh and these ad hoc rationalizers never fail to give me one.
Every one of these physics articles talks about how the theory fails to predict correctly. Amusing.
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