The year is 2016, and physicists are restless. Four years ago, the LHC confirmed the Higgs boson, the last outstanding prediction of the Standard Model. The chances were good, so they thought, that the LHC would also discover other new particles – naturalness seem to demand it. But, so far, given all the data they’ve collected, their greatest hopes appear to be phantasms.
The Standard Model and General Relativity do a great job, but physicists know this can’t be it. Or at least they think they know: the theories are incomplete, not only disagreeable and staring each other in the face without talking, but inadmissibly wrong, giving rise to paradoxa with no known cure. There has to be more to find, somewhere. But where?
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