The Big and the Small

Great photo set of the LHC from The Atlantic (via The Verge).

Since I’m thinking LHC, I should also mention the Higgs Boson news (don’t miss the PHC Comics video). It is certainly a big step for particle physics and the Standard Model. However, I think I would have been more excited for something that was inconsistent with the Standard Model. After all, we know that the Standard Model on its own doesn’t bring the unification with gravitational theory that is so appealing.

Of course the Standard Model doesn’t have to be ‘wrong’ to be incomplete. However, as exciting as the world of particle physics is today, I think it would have been that much more exciting with new evidence that took current theories, roughed them up, and stole their lunch money (metaphorically or literally).