G'day Roshi,
Roshi wrote:they can't be honest and say "We found nothing, give us more money for another kind of experiment based on a different hypothesis". That would mean: "We were wrong and spent your money looking for the wrong things, still give us another million $, maybe we will find something, maybe not"...
Haha, good point...
"The Large Hadron Collider took about a decade to construct, for a total cost of about $4.75 billion. There are several different experiments going on at the LHC, including the CMS and ATLAS Detectors which discovered the Higgs boson. CERN contributes about 20% of the cost of those experiments, which is a total of about $5.5 billion a year. The remainder of the funding for those experiments is provided by international collaborations. Computing power is also a significant part of the cost of running CERN - about $286 million annually. Electricity costs alone for the LHC run about $23.5 million per year. The total operating budget of the LHC runs to about $1 billion per year."
"Taking all of those costs into consideration,
the total cost of finding the Higgs boson ran about $13.25 billion...."
"The intriguing hint of a possible resonance at 750 GeV decaying into photon pairs, which caused considerable interest from the 2015 data, has not reappeared in the much larger 2016 data set and thus appears to be a
statistical fluctuation"
http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-offici ... l-particle
We found it!....mmm... No we didn't....
"It's official, we haven't found a new fundamental particle"
"The infamous “diphoton bump” that arose in data plots in December has disappeared, indicating that it was a
fleeting statistical fluctuation rather than a revolutionary new fundamental particle. And in fact,
the machine’s collisions have so far conjured up no particles at all beyond those catalogued in the long-reigning but incomplete “Standard Model” of particle physics. In the collision debris, physicists have found
no particles that could comprise dark matter, no siblings or cousins of the Higgs boson, no sign of extra dimensions, no leptoquarks — and above all, none of the desperately sought supersymmetry particles that would round out equations and satisfy “naturalness,” a deep principle about how the laws of nature ought to work.
“It’s striking that we’ve thought about these things for 30 years
and we have not made one correct prediction...."
"Some theorists argue that
the time has already come for the whole field to start reckoning with the message of the null results."
Contrast that with a man who had the most amazing often literal grasp on electricity, shunned, forgotten, crank, eccentric, inventor of just about everything... like fluoro tubes, high tension a/c power generation, transformers, induction motors, laser, lightning towers etc etc:
Tesla did something supposed to be the precursor to
atom smashing in a bottle:
"and that is why Tesla’s carbon-button lamp may be described
as an ancestor of the atom-smasher using the hard carborundum
button in a nearly air-exhausted globe, connecting it to a source of
high, rapidly alternating current, he caused the remaining molecules of
air to become charged, thus to be repelled at increasingly high
velocities from the button to the glass globe, and thence back to the
button, shattering the carbon beads in the button into atomic dust
which joined the oscillating air molecules to cause even further
disintegration.
“If the frequency could be brought high enough,” he said...
"He made a particle-pushing machine of glass and sealing wax.
The disk-shaped vacuum chamber was only four inches wide. Inside
were two electrodes, each shaped like half a round cake box and
called D plates. Outside the vacuum chamber was a powerful elec-
tromagnet Electrified particles or protons were whirled in a magnetic
field in the circular chamber until they attained very high speed and
were then fired out of the chamber in a narrow stream of high-speed
atomic bullets. Lawrence’s first model was called a cyclotron because it
whirled the protons in circles. Soon he built a larger one that fired
protons up to energies of 1.2 million electron volts."
"Whether Tesla was actually smashing the carbon’s atomic
nucleus, as his first biographer thought, has little bearing on the
revolutionary nature of his achievement The inventor himself de-
scribed the molecules of the residual gas as violently impinging on the
carbon button and causing it to rise to an incandescent state, or a near-
plastic phase of the solid."
https://ia800208.us.archive.org/23/item ... f-Time.pdf
