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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 Saturday May 03 2014, @01:03AM
""The Standard Model, as it stands, has no good explanation for why the Universe has anything in it at all," ...
so in other words: throwing a shoe over your left shoulder with your right hand, while holding your nose with the other and standing on one leg doesn't explain anything
then again a "heavy-electron" (muon) creator + kinetic.accelerator and subsequent random impulse generator (collider) sounds like the first experiment that will yield practical real world applications, like muon induced fusion and "xeon-ion" drive-like rocket engine but based on muons?
but probably not 'cause we have to suppress the bridge-link between gravity/mass and magnetism-electricity.