On 21/10/29 12:54 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 2:44:03 AM UTC-6, Jos Bergervoet wrote:
They did not find a particle that is not part of the standard model?
Why is that so great?! It sounds more like an attempt to safe face..
Actually, I thought the BBC story did a good job of explaining what was
going on here.
My complaint was more about the title of this thread (but the title
of the BBC "heralds new chapter" has the same triumphant ring!) As
for the explanation, it does indeed show that this is just one step
in eliminating possible extensions of our theory.
...
some modification to the existing theories was needed.
Yes, we see that more often..
The simplest one would be to postulate "sterile neutrinos", but this new experiment shows that, no, this can't be the answer,
So, in trying to solve a problem, the simplest solution now did not
work. Why is that so great? Why a "new chapter"? It could just be the
first sentence: "Tried changing the spark plugs, but that didn't help."
and so we need to
look for a more difficult answer that takes us farther outside the Standard Model.
That is true of course. Completely ruling them out is more than just
not finding them. But then, at the start of the article "The search
failed to find the particle" should have been "ruled out the existence".
The BBC does not write that, and also further on: "no hint" of the
sterile neutrino and "the non-detection" does not make the claim of
ruling out the existence.
(And apart from that, actually finding the sterile neutrino's would
probably still be considered more "great" by the Nobel committee..)
--
Jos
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