The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and… — Peter Woit
The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and too hard to come up with theoretical advances that will address some of the things it leaves unexplained.
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How did particle physics get itself into its current state where some of its most prominent practitioners question whether their colleagues have given up on science?
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