The Electroweak Scale and the Neutrinos

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There was a strong feeling that because of the hierarchy problem, there had to be something going on at the electroweak scale. The LHC is still running, still looking for new things but it wasn't the easy, nice thing we might have hoped for. There don't so far seem to be any new particles at the Electroweak Scale other than the Higgs boson.

Physics is in crisis, what else is new? That's what we hear in certain corners, anyway, usually pointed at "fundamental" physics of particles and fields. (Condensed matter and biophysics etc. are just fine.) In this solo podcast I ruminate on the unusual situation fundamental physics finds itself in, where we have a theoretical understanding that fits almost all the data, but which nobody believes to be the final answer. I talk about how we got here, and argue that it's not really a "crisis" in any real sense. But there are ways I think the academic community could handle the problem better, especially by making more space for respectable but minority approaches to deep puzzles.

Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-solo-the-crisis-in-physics/

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