I don’t understand this at all. It’s the most complicated scientific experiment humans have ever built, of course it’s going to have some problems. If it fails 100 times then that is probably because it was too ambitious of a project and the engineers failed, not because of the anthropic principle. Smart physicists don’t think it will cause any sort of risk to humanity, but EY seems to mistrust physicists. Why is this?
Somewhat related: why did EY bet that there would be no Higgs in the first place? Of course in hindsight it’s clear that there was a Higgs (pretty clear at least) and that the LHC won’t end the world, so I’ll rephrase the question. What evidence did EY have that led him to believe that there would be no Higgs?
(Sorry if this post is silly, I’m very confused about this matter)
If I understand his remarks (about the Higgs boson bet) correctly, he did not trust the ability of physicists to make that sort of prediction from theory. It is possible that he could have updated beforehand by reading up on the history of the neutrino, positron, charm quark, and neutrino mass discoveries.
I don’t understand this at all. It’s the most complicated scientific experiment humans have ever built, of course it’s going to have some problems. If it fails 100 times then that is probably because it was too ambitious of a project and the engineers failed, not because of the anthropic principle. Smart physicists don’t think it will cause any sort of risk to humanity, but EY seems to mistrust physicists. Why is this?
Somewhat related: why did EY bet that there would be no Higgs in the first place? Of course in hindsight it’s clear that there was a Higgs (pretty clear at least) and that the LHC won’t end the world, so I’ll rephrase the question. What evidence did EY have that led him to believe that there would be no Higgs?
(Sorry if this post is silly, I’m very confused about this matter)
If I understand his remarks (about the Higgs boson bet) correctly, he did not trust the ability of physicists to make that sort of prediction from theory. It is possible that he could have updated beforehand by reading up on the history of the neutrino, positron, charm quark, and neutrino mass discoveries.