Hawking:
"The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions
by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to
discover the Higgs particle,".
"I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs. That will
show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100
dollars that we won't find the Higgs,"
. That "something is wrong, and we need to think
again" we know since the birth of the rationality. Any
scientific model gets obsolete at the moment of its
formulation - a challenge for its successor.
That in general. In particular we know that there is
something wrong in particle physics since Dirac said:
"When you get a number turning out to be infinite which
ought to be finite, you should admit that there is
something wrong with your equations, and not hope that
you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that
number."
(We need) "some fundamental change in our ideas,
probably a change just as fundamental as the passage
from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics."
Higgs' "God's Particle" omnipresent but never observed
recalls the billiard balls of Aether and I join my hope
with that of Hawking that it will go down the same drain.
Georges.
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