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How the Higgs discovery broke particle physics
How the Higgs discovery broke particle physics

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The Standard Model of Particle Physics is our most experimentally verified theory of nature having its final test in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. With this, many thought we wouldn’t see any new physics beyond the Standard . . .

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is our most experimentally verified theory of nature having its final test in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. With this, many thought we wouldn’t see any new physics beyond the Standard Model and that it was complete, but as Adam Koberinski writes, the Higgs discovery was not a verification but rather a falsification of the effective field theory framework in which the Standard Model subsides. When the Higgs boson was discovered and confirmed in the early 2010s, a decades-long quest to empirically confirm every aspect of the Standard Model of particle physics came to a close. Along with this triumph came disappointment — there was no further evidence for any proposed theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. Despite the major success, certain theoretical problems remain unresolved, and the way forward is no longer clear.The…

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