re: The Large Hadron Collider a bust so far?

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Just came in my email today.
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1. What’s beyond the ‘standard model’ of physics?


The Large Hadron Collider has already ticked one thing off the list with the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. In 2015, the LHC began Run 2 after a couple of years of upgrades, now smashing protons together at almost double the previous energy. This month, the first experiments revealed a hint of a new particle.

This could be the sign of “super symmetry,” a theory which proposes that there is a heavier super-partner for every particle in the Standard Model (our current best theory of the subatomic world). Super symmetry is important as it could explain many fundamental mysteries of physics, such as what “dark matter” is or the way that the laws of physics appear fine tuned to produce the world around us. However, the new particle could also be a sign of hidden dimensions, a second Higgs boson or — before we get too excited — a false alarm. We will have to wait for more data in 2016 to know for sure.

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