Posted: Sep 12, 2011 12:00 pm
cavarka9 wrote:dont panic about missing higgs for now.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... r-now.html
with so many theorists and so many ideas, it shouldnt matter, the younger generation who have been told to put a seat belt on their imagination are going to be excited though.
I do agree that a higgless universe might be more exciting than having a higgs field permeating all space. However, finding the higgs does matter as its existence or non-existence will decide the future of physics in a most dramatic fashion. The main problem, should the higgs be ruled out, will be: how do we find another theory for the weak interaction that is renormalizable? This would be for physics a throwback to the 1960's, when people like Weinberg, Salam, Gross et al. thought they are had cornered that problem.