The Higgs question is still not settled.
It is necessary to settle that because it is the only missing piece of a very elegant theory called the standard model.
But worries have started at another corner. Is the world supersymmetric?
The gross answer was known long ago. It is not in a straightforward way. We do not know the susy partner of electron, for example.
The finer answer was not known.
Some finer answers were excluded.
Jut a few days ago in Mumbai.
And all hell is breaking loose.
Rightfully so because in these landscapes (there is a danger of a pun being there but it is not intended at all) there is always the danger of exceptions turning into rules.
Good times.
BBC had it first. This must have irked many of the heavy weights of the blogging world. Even if they were not in Mumbai at Electron-Photon 2011 they were at least browsing, downloading and listening to the talks.
Here are the takes by various Movers and Shakers:
Jester
Zaperz
Peter Woit
TPLEC
Carlo Rovelli
Mathew Strassler (also here)
Lisa Randall
G.Kane via Tommaso Dorigo
Tomorrow
It is necessary to settle that because it is the only missing piece of a very elegant theory called the standard model.
But worries have started at another corner. Is the world supersymmetric?
The gross answer was known long ago. It is not in a straightforward way. We do not know the susy partner of electron, for example.
The finer answer was not known.
Some finer answers were excluded.
Jut a few days ago in Mumbai.
And all hell is breaking loose.
Rightfully so because in these landscapes (there is a danger of a pun being there but it is not intended at all) there is always the danger of exceptions turning into rules.
Good times.
BBC had it first. This must have irked many of the heavy weights of the blogging world. Even if they were not in Mumbai at Electron-Photon 2011 they were at least browsing, downloading and listening to the talks.
Here are the takes by various Movers and Shakers:
Jester
Zaperz
Peter Woit
TPLEC
Carlo Rovelli
Mathew Strassler (also here)
Lisa Randall
G.Kane via Tommaso Dorigo
Tomorrow