Re: Grand Unified Theory Solved... Maybe
I have to sit through about two of these talks per month and tbh am really tired of hearing about this field of physics. I'm sure somebody will come up with a correct unification theory one day, but imo this shouldn't even be called physics for now. Even these guys admit that they are several orders of magnitude from ever testing these theories. It seems like just anybody could come up with one of these, just make sure your theory isn't testable and make the math hard enough that nobody will bother to challenge it.
Also these experiments are ridiculous, they could fund 5000 condensed matter/amo experiments for the price of the LHC. They will probably find the higgs boson in a couple of years, and it will be a great accomplishment and somebody will win the nobel prize, and then they will be clamoring to spend tens of billions to build the next thing that will allow them to set new upper limits on the validity of their theories. At least the euros fit the bill for this one, although the superconducting supercollider was LOL.
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