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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Ray,
a professor of physics said to all of us in the lecture theatre one day that he wondered
if these new particles were really relevant.
He said that maybe we are like children with building blocks
making new structures -
& it is us who have created these particles & they don't exist
in nature & never existed before?
In other words these new particles are meaningless?
cheers
Allan
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I have also heard this view expressed by others Allan. I disagree with it.
This work is peering into the very nature of the stuff that makes up universe. I cannot think of any more meaningful activity in Physics. It is wonderful to see the hero projects (LHC, LIGO etc) delivering the goods. Maybe some of this research could eventually give us an understanding of what dark energy and dark matter are - it is slightly disturbing to live in a universe where 97% of it is unknown in nature.