>>11724797you are wrong
>>11724704i do not agree with this premise, discussion below.
>>11724736this guy's post is excellent. thank you, anon.
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my opinion is that 1. when normies talk about this, they are usually talking about high-energy theoretical physics. there are things going on in other branches of physics that are really important, however. but it doesn't have the woo factor that normies care about. for god's sake, they gave a nobel prize to a guy for inventing a BLUE led. red, orange, yellow, green -- they existed, but blue was a super hard problem for years and it took exceptional research to unlock blue. so you need to stop expecting a huge woo factor and accept that good stuff still happens even when it is as mundane as blue vs. green LEDs.
2. narrowing the focus down to high energy physics. in experiment there have been discoveries, even besides the higgs boson. tetraquarks, pentaquarks possibly, there is some weird shit from ANITA, neutrino physics is a total mystery, new ways of observing CP violation have been found, on and on. again, normies don't care. because none of it is super fundamental stuff that they are used to hearing about like what einstein and heisenberg and dirac and feynman did. but it is progressing, and more importantly than what is being found is that the experimental techniques and apparatus are really progressing hardcore. if you thought the LHC was impressive, the HL-LHC is going to require the experiments to become basically 1000% better because so far only 10% of the data has been collected and all the 90% rest of it will come in in the next half of the timeline of the LHC/HL-LHC experiment. unfortunately, all this progress is taking place on a collider that is only 30% of what it would have been if the SSC weren't cancelled. the LHC is kind of a second-rate machine compared to....
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