“no, we swear there’s going to be a Higgs boson, we just need to build a more powerful particle accelerator”
Particle physicists also made other confident predictions about the LHC that are not working out, and they’re now asking for a bigger accelerator.
Survivorship bias might be at play, wherein we forget all the confident pronouncements that ended being just plain wrong.
I mean, the other main things to look for were WIMPs and supersymmetry, but almost everyone was cautious about chances of finding those.
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/
Particle physicists also made other confident predictions about the LHC that are not working out, and they’re now asking for a bigger accelerator.
Survivorship bias might be at play, wherein we forget all the confident pronouncements that ended being just plain wrong.
I mean, the other main things to look for were WIMPs and supersymmetry, but almost everyone was cautious about chances of finding those.
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/