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Yesterday, Adam Falkowski published his outset weblog post service since September 2016, Where were we?. He starts yesteryear maxim that particle physics is inward crisis – which is no longer a prohibited give-and-take – because the LHC hasn't works life whatever physics beyond the Standard Model.

He mentions texts yesteryear Hossenfelder, Giudice, in addition to the Economist to seek that the "crisis" is beingness used. But at that spot receive got e'er been people who preached well-nigh crises. More than 2 decades ago, inward 1996, John Horgan published his "End of Science" diatribe. Ten years later, Šmoits introduced their ain crisis hype. Adam, if yous holler upwardly that you're however substantially different from these 3 imbeciles, yous mightiness last wrong.

According to Falkowski, the continuation of particle physics equally nosotros knew it would last similar the prolonged existence of the Soviet Union. Wow. Another troubling expression of these assertions is that Falkowski continues to write business-as-usual papers on particle physics. Adam, peradventure it's normal inward your environs to create things that yous reckon worthless in addition to last paid for them. But I holler upwardly that you're showing the absence of academic integrity yesteryear doing in addition to hence in addition to I volition e'er emphasize that this demeanour is immoral.




Instead of "doing to a greater extent than of the same", Falkowski recommends precisely about random buzzwords – switching to astrophysics, tabletop experiments, in addition to precision physics, with a few others. The loose energy frontier should last abandoned. Be my guest: but yous tin flame exclusively brand decisions well-nigh yourself because yous precisely denounced the offering to last the adjacent Soviet dictator. ;-) You may switch – in addition to yous should switch – to astrophysics, tabletop experiments, in addition to precision physics if yous holler upwardly it's a expert idea. You're clearly non doing it – you're talking the utter but non walking the walk.

Some people move on astrophysics, tabletop experiments, in addition to precision physics. They larn precisely about results that receive got exclusively impressed others to a express extent which is why others maintain on doing other things. But yous know what's happening when folks similar Falkowski telephone telephone for a random revolution inward the field? They don't receive got whatever evidence that it would last an improvement – they precisely desire to social engineer a novel community in addition to accept credit but for beingness consequential, whether or non it would convey anything good. That's incorrect in addition to it mustn't last allowed.




By the way, the increase of the loose energy is however the unmarried most natural path to progress inward experimental particle physics. All other experiments depend on much to a greater extent than specific in addition to much to a greater extent than unlikely assumptions. So all these paths should last probed yesteryear somebody but Falkowski's telephone telephone is zip else than the telephone telephone to ban the loose energy frontier in addition to that's precisely totally wrong.

When Falkowski talked well-nigh the equivalence of particle physics in addition to the Soviet Union, he besides wrote the following:
But the driving forcefulness for all these SusyWarpedCompositeStringBlackHairyHole venture has e'er been the (small but still) possibility of beingness vindicated yesteryear the LHC.
But this is an absolute lie.

I've met most of the people who receive got studied SusyWarpedCompositeStringBlackHairyHole in addition to I tin flame assure yous that the LHC has played virtually no utilization inward their research. That the short-term experimental projects should decide what high loose energy theorists holler upwardly well-nigh is a prevarication spread yesteryear Mr Sm*lin, Mr W*it, in addition to similar feces. The to a greater extent than top-down or high-energy physics a theoretical physicist does, the to a greater extent than independent he or she is from whatever short-term events inward experimental physics but because the ongoing experiments are unlikely to address the most of import questions directly.

In particular, an overwhelming bulk of hep-th papers (as good equally a substantial fraction of the hep-ph papers) has virtually zip to create with whatever collider experiment of the electrical current epoch because they're but solving to a greater extent than far-reaching, long-term problems where the ability of the human hear is to a greater extent than of import than a powerful magnet. Feces may enjoin that something similar that should last impossible but it is possible in addition to what feces enjoin does non affair for science.

So please, Mr Falkowski, don't force for random revolutions inside particle physics because your recommendations brand no sense, receive got no justification, in addition to are driven yesteryear your personal lack of excitement for the field. If you're non excited well-nigh your work, yous should switch to precisely about other job, instead of poisoning the environs where many people truly know what they're doing in addition to why they're doing it. You're clearly inward the procedure of turning into precisely about other Hossenfelder-like lying slice of toxic šit in addition to if yous receive got a gamble to halt it at all, yous should create in addition to hence equally presently equally possible. One vitriolic weblog post service that yous write inward 2 years may easily create to a greater extent than impairment than all the positive things yous receive got ever contributed to science.

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