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Some physicists are surprised that two relatively recent discoveries in their field have captured so much widespread attention: cosmic inflation, the ballooning expansion of the baby universe, and the Higgs boson, which endows other particles with mass. These are heady and interesting concepts, but, in one sense, what's new about them is downright boring. These discoveries suggest that so far, our prevailing theories governing large and small the Big Bang and the Standard Model of subatomic particles and forces are accurate, good to go.
But both cosmic inflation and the Higgs boson fall short of unifying these phenomena and explaining the deepest cosmic questions. "The Standard Model, as it stands, has no good explanation for why the Universe has anything in it at all," says Mark Messier, physics professor at Indiana University and spokesman for an under-construction particle detector.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @08:07PM
Yes.. revenge of Aristotelian physics, FTW! Over two thousand years of scientific confusion wrapping itself up back were it started quite nicely. Now they just need to toss Newton's adaptive algorithm of Gravity and sort Buoyancy and Levity proper in light of the now measurable neutrino aether and we'll be set to explore the universe. Socrates was the man.. and Plato had it sorted- they should have just listened to Aristotle in 300 BC instead of nit picking our enlightened understanding of the physical universe apart. The biggest flaw in the scientific method is the dependency on the quality of measuring instruments. Better late than never I guess, and the scenic route wasn't all bad.