Well, now we know the “bump” was a fluke.

Since the first “hint” of a new 750 Gev particle, approximately 500 papers have been written explaining the meaning of this 2-sigma bump. Was there really sufficient cause for physicists to “go into a frenzy”?

Does this tell us something about the state of particle physics? Steven Weinberg’s “Nightmare Scenario”, i.e., nothing discovered at the LHC beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which has a number of problems signifying its provisional character, continues without letup. Physics has suffered through 45 years of failure to find a single “string”, “sparticle” or “WIMP” despite heroic experimental efforts.

Time for new ideas in particle physics and cosmology! In fact new ideas are long overdue.

RLO

http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

Discrete Scale Relativity/Fractal Cosmology

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