I think I wound up having to edit it out of the excerpt, but the Higgs was predicted (actually needed, it’s a mathematical kludge) by the Standard Model; so were massless neutrinos. Since the late 1960s several longterm experiments were set up to detect neutrinos, and failed to turn up any (for all practical purposes; the level of apparent hits was the kind of background level one would expect to find in interstellar space). Since the Sun is quite close by, we should be awash in them.
Then about ten years ago, a really purpose-built experiment was begun. It appeared to find neutrinos. Unfortunately the detected whatevers had mass.
Soooo, it was decided that neutrinos had been found after all, but that they changed from massless to massful while making the trip from the Sun. Standard Model was upheld.
Good thing no one invoked the Electric Universe Theory. Otherwise people might think physics is just politically driven, black-ops controlled pseudoscience.
“Since the late 1960s several longterm experiments were set up to detect neutrinos, and failed to turn up any ...”
I think I saw somewhere that lack of neutrino emissions from the sun (if the theories about what stars are is correct) signals that the furnace, so to speak, has gone out, and the sun is beginning the journey toward expansion/collapse. What do you think?
So experimental results (mass-off, then mass-on) that didn’t fit the Standard Model were made to fit the Standard Model.
It’s the opposite of Lois Lerner’s emails. They did exist, then they didn’t.
I think it’s called Standard Operating Procedure.