Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:47 pm
socrattus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:43 pm
If new quantum particles don't help us understand the mysteries of quantum particles
(such as their duality), then what is the reason for the LHC hypermania?
Scientists just tryinig to cover for the fact that they never made it to the moon, obviously.
The Uncertain Future of Particle Physics
Ten years in, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to deliver the exciting discoveries that scientists promised.
Jan. 23, 2019
/By Sabine Hossenfelder/
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest particle accelerator.
It’s a 16-mile-long underground ring, located at CERN in Geneva, in which protons collide
at almost the speed of light. With a $5 billion price tag and a $1 billion annual operation cost,
the L.H.C. is the most expensive instrument ever built — and that’s even though it reuses
the tunnel of an earlier collider.
Last week, CERN unveiled plans to build an accelerator that is larger
and far more powerful than the L.H.C. — and would cost over $10 billion.
I used to be a particle physicist. For my Ph.D. thesis, I did L.H.C. predictions,
and while I have stopped working in the field, I still believe that slamming particles
into one another is the most promising route to understanding what matter is made of
and how it holds together. But $10 billion is a hefty price tag. And I’m not sure it’s worth it.
In 2012, experiments at the L.H.C. confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson —
a prediction that dates back to the 1960s — and it remains the only discovery made at the L.H.C.
Particle physicists are quick to emphasize that they have learned other things:
For example,
they now have better knowledge about the structure of the proton, and they’ve seen new
(albeit unstable) composite particles. But let’s be honest: It’s disappointing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opin ... lider.html
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1- "For example, they now have better knowledge about the structure of the proton, . . ."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opin ... lider.html
A proton is made up of the Quark family. The quark family of particles consists of:
up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange particles + antiquarks + tetraquark + pentaquark + leptoquark (?) + . . .
2- Book, "Fundamentals": "The discovery of the Higgs particle was announced on July 4, 2012." . . .
" The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds, or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds."
/page 177, by Frank Wilczek/.
The Higgs boson is a spin-zero particle. Spinless particles are unstable and cannot be fundamental particles.