The Higgs Problem - Is There a Good Reason for It?

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It's something which, by a the early part of the millennium, we had measured. And it gave me pause that any of the sort of rational explanations which people were thinking about for one problem, i could could be, could bet we're looking for. So you could ask, well, so i, i certainly was worried, before the l h c turned on, about whether there was something like that going on for the, for the higgs phenomena. In fact, this probably gets to my to your earlier question. Why are there these three realizations of the gaged principle, of the h symmetries in the strong, the weak and tromagnetic force? That might

Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s hard to know exactly how to move beyond them, since they agree with all the experiments. Yet, there are strong indications from theoretical considerations and cosmological data that we need to do better. But the leading contenders, especially supersymmetry, haven’t yet shown up in our experiments, leading some to wonder whether anthropic selection is a better answer. Michael Dine gives us an expert’s survey of the current situation, with pointers to what might come next.

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Michael Dine received his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his awards are fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Physical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. His new book is This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist’s Journey to the Edge of Reality.

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