reasoning was influential for well over a millennium. Most of all, they ridicule Aristotle followers for idolizing the master, and for blindly following what he had to say.Īristotle was a great genius. Physicists love to ridicule Aristotle for his non-quantitative theory of physics, for his thought experiments, for his unsubstantiated realism, and for his (supposed) attempts to explain the world according to how he thought the world ought to be, instead of how it is. In physics, says Schlafly, this has led to wasteful, un-falsifiable “top down” theorizing that often leads nowhere.Įinstein is the new Aristotle. How Einstein Ruined Physics however is not just about Einstein the man, but how the world-changing findings in physics over the past century have produced an Einstein cult that continues to impact modern science negatively. There are profound reasons that many physicists will be surprised if it does… but so far the Standard Model is working just fine, thank you. But its equations might be sufficient, with those caveats, to describe everything the LHC experiments can measure. We know the Standard Model doesn’t describe everything, not only because of gravity’s absence, but because dark matter and neutrino masses aren’t included and also the Standard Model fails to explain lots of other things, such as the overall strengths of the elementary forces, and the pattern of elementary particle types and particle masses. *The “ Standard Model” is the theory - i.e., the set of mathematical equations - used to describe and predict the behavior of all the known elementary particles and forces of nature, excepting gravity. But an answer can only be obtained by searching for every imaginable chink in the Standard Model’s armor, and thus requires a great diversity of measurements. Many more years of hard and clever work lie ahead, and - at least for the time being - this blog will help you follow the story.
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These new and impressive results are mostly aimed at answering a fundamental question that faces high-energy physics today: Is the Standard Model* the full description of particle physics at the energies accessible to the LHC? Our understanding of nature at the smallest distances, and the future direction of high-energy physics, depend crucially on the answer. The rich 2011-2012 LHC data set is still being used for new particle physics measurements by ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. Īlthough the LHC won’t start again until sometime next year (at 60% more energy per proton-proton collision than in 2012), the LHC experimenters have not been sleeping through the summer of 2014… far from it. In the meantime I will be continuing for a second year as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard physics department, where I am doing high-energy physics research, most of it related to the Large Hadron Collider. will force me to ramp up the frequency of posts rather slowly.
Even so, a host of responsibilities, requirements, grant applications, etc. After a very busy few months, in which a move to a new city forced me to curtail all work on this website, I’m looking to bring the blog gradually out of hibernation.
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