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Was the Higgs boson discovery a triumph or disappointment?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is the Higgs Boson Discoverion the End All Be All Triumph of Particle Physics?

The Higgs boson was sort of like the simplest, most vanilla, most boring end to the story. It wrapped up all the threads in a way that didn't give us a clue about what came next. Of course, it doesn't shut down lots of other kinds of questions that we can ask. But you know, it's a disappointment. If you imagine another alternative world where we had found something else totally weird and different,. they gave us very immediate, tangible things to follow up on.

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